Zoe the never dog<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We rescued her from Jersey<\/p>\n
She doesn’t like my mother<\/em> the boy said<\/p>\n While he fixed our invisible fence<\/p>\n Would you want another dog<\/em> he asked<\/p>\n Before I could run this by my husband<\/p>\n He was gone and back from Jersey<\/p>\n Miss Zoe has a terrible overbite<\/p>\n And those big buggy eyes drool<\/p>\n Causing a stiff crust beneath each eye<\/p>\n She’ll growl if you attempt to clean her face<\/p>\n Never coming when called<\/p>\n An empty repertoire of tricks<\/p>\n She’s a terrible dog as dogs go<\/p>\n Though she is perhaps the most<\/p>\n Loving person I know<\/p>\n Keeping track of time she is<\/p>\n Devoted to me from morning ’til 4:00<\/p>\n When she turns her attention to my husband<\/p>\n Making sure he’s in bed by 7:00<\/p>\n Offering her grand bribes<\/p>\n I pray she will speak to me<\/p>\n Just once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zoe the never dog We rescued her from Jersey She doesn’t like my mother the boy said While he fixed our invisible fence Would you want another dog he asked Before I could run this by my husband He was gone and back from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28859,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions\/28859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}