{"id":27961,"date":"2016-08-14T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27961"},"modified":"2016-08-14T06:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:41:17","slug":"the-owl-no-pussycat-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-owl-no-pussycat-18\/","title":{"rendered":"The Owl &#8211; No Pussycat &#8211; #18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get out of the boat, he hissed at the young owl.\u00a0 He had been saving the seat for the owl with the russet colored feathers. Lately Miss Russet seemed to carry a flame for him, or so he thought.\u00a0 The older, grayer owl was not the one he wanted.\u00a0 He hissed at her again, then flew at her and bit the little finger she curled at him which she thought was a seductive appeal.\u00a0 No cougar owls are allowed on this cruise,<\/p>\n<p>At last the cougar\u00a0gave up and flew out of the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Russet stayed perched in the tree<\/p>\n<p>as early evening edged to night and it was time to join\u00a0Mr. Old Wisdom in the light blue boat across the\u00a0lake\u00a0during\u00a0the sweet hour of evening trysts for innocent lovers.\u00a0 No one here was innocent.<\/p>\n<p>All these owls had only base desires,<\/p>\n<p>but it was in a boat,<\/p>\n<p>so perhaps it was without\u00a0low morality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get out of the boat, he hissed at the young owl.\u00a0 He had been saving the seat for the owl with the russet colored feathers. Lately Miss Russet seemed to carry a flame for him, or so he thought.\u00a0 The older, grayer owl was not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27961","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28056,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27961\/revisions\/28056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}