{"id":26761,"date":"2016-08-14T02:20:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26761"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:47:20","slug":"furry-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/furry-monstrosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Furry Monstrosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26921 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/House-Cat-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"House Cat\" width=\"352\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/House-Cat-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/House-Cat-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/House-Cat-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/House-Cat.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I stretch out my legs and stiffen my back,<br \/>\na full body stretch to wake me up after every nap,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">covered in fur,<br \/>\nthat matches my purr,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I have sharp teeth for lovable nibbles,<br \/>\nand am often mistaken for a vicious animal,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Friends,<br \/>\nsome long forgotten,<br \/>\nothers just outside,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll call upon until they arrive,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">a chirpy meow, or a full blown roar,<br \/>\nand they appear outside my door,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">when I am bored,<br \/>\nI curl up in a ball,<br \/>\nor roll on the carpet in the hall,<br \/>\nsometimes I stumble and I fall,<br \/>\nbut my owner&#8217;s love me, hairballs and all,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">oh, the house cat life,<br \/>\nit isn&#8217;t so bad,<br \/>\nwith the best parents I could ever have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stretch out my legs and stiffen my back, a full body stretch to wake me up after every nap, covered in fur, that matches my purr, I have sharp teeth for lovable nibbles, and am often mistaken for a vicious animal, Friends, some long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26938,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions\/26938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}