{"id":43235,"date":"2017-08-06T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43235"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:00:21","slug":"watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart still ached from losing Gus,<br \/>\nfrom losing August, but my need for<br \/>\na dog, a companion, was too great.<br \/>\nYour ears were plastered back, even<br \/>\nthrough the glass. Not a Poodle.<br \/>\nNot a Havanese. Brown eyes cast<br \/>\ndown. Tail tucked. I held your paw<br \/>\nto guess how large you&#8217;d grow. It didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nmatter. I took you home that hour. You<br \/>\nsat perfectly still in the car, refused<br \/>\nto walk up the open air stairs to<br \/>\nmy apartment. I carried you. I laid<br \/>\non my brown leather couch, and you<br \/>\nlaid on my belly, nose to nose,<br \/>\nstretched the length of my body.<br \/>\nI called out of work. Your floppy ears<br \/>\nrelaxed, no longer held back. Your<br \/>\nbrown and black tail curled next to you,<br \/>\nno longer tucked. Brown eyes explored<br \/>\nthe room from the perch on my chest.<br \/>\nOur breath synced. We slept unmoving. Home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart still ached from losing Gus, from losing August, but my need for a dog, a companion, was too great. Your ears were plastered back, even through the glass. Not a Poodle. Not a Havanese. Brown eyes cast down. Tail tucked. I held your&#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-43235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43235","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=43235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43279,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43235\/revisions\/43279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}