{"id":51198,"date":"2019-06-22T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51198"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:11:08","slug":"the-tale-of-a-tiny-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-tale-of-a-tiny-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of a Tiny Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friend, my name is Bup.<br \/>\nSmall and green and soft,<br \/>\nI am mostly made of moss.<br \/>\nTonight, on fish I&#8217;ll sup.<\/p>\n<p>I waddle to the creek.<br \/>\nMy trek is very long.<br \/>\nI sing my trekking song.<br \/>\nMy voice is rough and meek.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I reach the stream,<br \/>\nmy tiny legs are weary,<br \/>\nand though my eyes are teary,<br \/>\nI cannot help but beam.<\/p>\n<p>The water&#8217;s full of little fishes,<br \/>\nso delectable and plump!<br \/>\nAnd with one mighty jump,<br \/>\nI have my choice of dishes.<\/p>\n<p>I slurp down a nice grey minnow.<br \/>\nIts taste is smooth and sweet.<br \/>\nThe current ruffles mossy hands and feet.<br \/>\nMy panging hunger begins to winnow.<\/p>\n<p>All a sudden, I&#8217;m going up!<br \/>\nA giant beak holds me fast.<br \/>\nI do fear my time has passed.<br \/>\nFarewell, friend, my name was Bup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friend, my name is Bup. Small and green and soft, I am mostly made of moss. Tonight, on fish I&#8217;ll sup. I waddle to the creek. My trek is very long. I sing my trekking song. My voice is rough and meek. By the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53884,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions\/53884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}