{"id":41298,"date":"2017-08-06T03:41:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41298"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:41:12","slug":"maggie-cat-of-kepler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/maggie-cat-of-kepler\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie, Cat of Kepler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p>This was news in 2015, a planet called Kepler 452b was considered very earth-like and potentially capable of supporting life. My old cat, Maggie, who I had to leave in Rochester, NY, would love being in a weightless environment, so I let her clib abroad a satellite orbitting station.<\/p>\n<h1>Maggie, Cat of Kepler<\/h1>\n<p>She loves this weightlessness,<br \/> <br \/>\nhas learned to shoot herself around <br \/>\ngracefully anchoring tostrategic surfaces <br \/>\nto watch imaginary fish<br \/>\nswimming in the blackness.<\/p>\n<p>Orbitting above<br \/>\nKepler 452b, <br \/>\nEarth 2.0 <br \/>\nan intergalactic restraining order<br \/>\nkeeping it human-free<\/p>\n<p>A ping-pong ball drifts past,<br \/> <br \/>\nthwacking it so it bounces around the walls <br \/>\nshe calmly ducks <br \/>\nto let it pass by her on its circuit<br \/>\nlike a tiny moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was news in 2015, a planet called Kepler 452b was considered very earth-like and potentially capable of supporting life. My old cat, Maggie, who I had to leave in Rochester, NY, would love being in a weightless environment, so I let her clib abroad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41298","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\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41312,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41298\/revisions\/41312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}