{"id":33514,"date":"2017-08-05T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33514"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:27:28","slug":"poem-4-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-4-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 4: Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight pounds of ferocious,<br \/>\nears perked into fleecy triangles,<br \/>\ntail wound into a clenched fist,<br \/>\nhe howls at the monsters outside.<\/p>\n<p>He howls at the monsters outside<br \/>\nas they creak and stomp through the world.<br \/>\nonly the shrillness of his war charge<br \/>\nkeeps his charges safe inside.<\/p>\n<p>His charges safe inside,<br \/>\nvoices low and growly,<br \/>\nunaware, unappreciative,<br \/>\ntheir fingers not yet crooked into combs.<\/p>\n<p>Not yet crooked into combs,<br \/>\nbut soon. Soon, they will rub soft ears,<br \/>\nscratch happy belly,\u00a0safe, content,<br \/>\nand tell him what a good, good boy he is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33555\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oscar-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oscar-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oscar-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oscar.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight pounds of ferocious, ears perked into fleecy triangles, tail wound into a clenched fist, he howls at the monsters outside. He howls at the monsters outside as they creak and stomp through the world. only the shrillness of his war charge keeps his charges&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33616,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions\/33616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}