{"id":35755,"date":"2017-08-05T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35755"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:03:53","slug":"beardie-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/beardie-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Beardie-Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crickets are too swift for you,<br \/>\nBeardie-Love, so I&#8217;ll pinch<br \/>\na plump mealworm, make it squirm,<br \/>\nbrush your cheek with it<br \/>\nuntil you crunch it. Crunch.<br \/>\nMunch on shredded collards<br \/>\nspinning between my thumb<br \/>\nand index finger, tickled<br \/>\nunder your chin. My digits<br \/>\nare too large to eat, Love,<br \/>\nyour nose to tail fits<br \/>\non my forearm. You may perch<br \/>\nin my hair while I scoop out<br \/>\nyour sand, slice sweet carrots<br \/>\nfor you, slice strawberries.<br \/>\nMunch. Flatten yourself<br \/>\nwhen I reach in until you<br \/>\nsmell my skin, crawl up<br \/>\nand toward my neck. I&#8217;ll cradle<br \/>\nyou in terry cloth, your nails<br \/>\nneed trimmed. Soak in the tub<br \/>\nwhile I fetch fresh water, never<br \/>\nminding the wet nose at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crickets are too swift for you, Beardie-Love, so I&#8217;ll pinch a plump mealworm, make it squirm, brush your cheek with it until you crunch it. Crunch. Munch on shredded collards spinning between my thumb and index finger, tickled under your chin. My digits are too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35800,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35755\/revisions\/35800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}