{"id":27620,"date":"2016-08-14T05:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27620"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T17:59:43","slug":"labeled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/labeled\/","title":{"rendered":"Labeled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have known women<\/p>\n<p>who could be<\/p>\n<p>classified as animals;<\/p>\n<p>tigers, panthers, mama bears.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I never dated a snake<\/p>\n<p>and avoided most of the cougars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most.<\/p>\n<p>There were others who were cat-like,<\/p>\n<p>reflexively, flexibly, stealthy. Fiesty.<\/p>\n<p>Or exotic creatures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a younger man, I appreciated the<\/p>\n<p>personification of men and women<\/p>\n<p>as hunters and hunted,<\/p>\n<p>aggressive and voracious.<\/p>\n<p>Domestication of said animals said less<\/p>\n<p>about my maturity than I would think.<\/p>\n<p>Experience now tells me<\/p>\n<p>the only animals I need compare others to<\/p>\n<p>are those that they are; proud, daring<\/p>\n<p>creatures of their own design<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mark L. Lucker<\/em><em><br \/>\n\u00a92016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known women who could be classified as animals; tigers, panthers, mama bears. Fortunately I never dated a snake and avoided most of the cougars. &nbsp; Most. There were others who were cat-like, reflexively, flexibly, stealthy. Fiesty. Or exotic creatures. &nbsp; As a younger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,441,1],"tags":[2093,1000,1061],"class_list":["post-27620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-animal-poem","tag-hour-18-prompt","tag-prompt-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27631,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620\/revisions\/27631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}