{"id":49999,"date":"2019-06-22T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49999"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:09:31","slug":"nappytime-hour-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nappytime-hour-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Nappytime (Hour Six)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Nappytime<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The pitter-pat of little feet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Echoes off the hardwood floor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Her big brown eyes look up at me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">From just outside the office door<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;It&#8217;s nappytime!&#8221; she seems to say<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Although she utters not a word<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">She climbs my legs onto my lap<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ensuring ev&#8217;ry grunt gets heard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">She beckons, &#8220;Mommy, time for bed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With her tiny yet full-bodied sigh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Too tired to sit, she&#8217;s had enough<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And rests her head on Mommy&#8217;s thigh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Okay, you win, time for a nap!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I smile and softly stroke her head<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Picking <em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">the dog<\/span><\/strong><\/em> up off my lap,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My muse and I crawl into bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50121 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Honeybun, aka My Muse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nappytime The pitter-pat of little feet Echoes off the hardwood floor Her big brown eyes look up at me From just outside the office door &nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s nappytime!&#8221; she seems to say Although she utters not a word She climbs my legs onto my lap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[605,2953,324,2952],"class_list":["post-49999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-dogs","tag-honeybun","tag-muse","tag-nap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49999","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50157,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49999\/revisions\/50157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}