{"id":43022,"date":"2017-08-06T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43022"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:30:30","slug":"the-zoogoers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-zoogoers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zoogoers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out on the street,<\/p>\n<p>a steady flow of feet<\/p>\n<p>leads to the National Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>One of our Smithsonian treasures,<\/p>\n<p>bison graze there once again,<\/p>\n<p>and a snowy leopard paces nervously<\/p>\n<p>as you pass by. The birds in the aviary<\/p>\n<p>fly, but they can&#8217;t really go anywhere,<\/p>\n<p>not that they care. \u00a0They like it here,<\/p>\n<p>but not the elephants. The tigers, too,<\/p>\n<p>would like to be somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>They would have left with the panda,<\/p>\n<p>who recently went back to China,<\/p>\n<p>or should I say, was summoned back<\/p>\n<p>to China. Some of us wept to see it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out on the street, a steady flow of feet leads to the National Zoo. One of our Smithsonian treasures, bison graze there once again, and a snowy leopard paces nervously as you pass by. The birds in the aviary fly, but they can&#8217;t really go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43086,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions\/43086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}