{"id":56553,"date":"2019-06-23T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56553"},"modified":"2019-06-25T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:09:30","slug":"prompt-21-faithful-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-21-faithful-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #21 Faithful Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><em><strong>My furry friend<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>my faithful companion<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>my playmate<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>my guardian.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>You were always brave,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>with those expressive eyes\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>you'd always manage to get your way.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Even when caught red handed...<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<pre><em><strong>Oh what simple pleasures<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>satisfied you,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>playing fetch,<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<pre><strong><em>Taking long walks in Albert Park<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><em><strong>digging in the backyard\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>and hiding the bones.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>And how you'd clean my plate up<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>and eat my veggies for me.<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<pre><em><strong>You were such a good boy.<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<pre><em><strong>How you'd wag your tail<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>to express your excitement<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>upon my arrival from school.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>How you planted those adorable\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>big wet kisses upon my face.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>My true partner in crime.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>You will always be my little boy.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<em><strong>My golden sun,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>My brightest days,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>My little boy.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<em><strong>-Janice Raquela Mendonca\u00a0\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56766\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56766\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1506903536293-8419385acdce-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1506903536293-8419385acdce-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1506903536293-8419385acdce.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">img by Celine Sayuri Tagami<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My furry friend my faithful companion my playmate my guardian. You were always brave,\u00a0 with those expressive eyes\u00a0 you&#8217;d always manage to get your way. Even when caught red handed&#8230; Oh what simple pleasures satisfied you,\u00a0 playing fetch, Taking long walks in Albert Park&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,5],"tags":[605],"class_list":["post-56553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56553","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58631,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56553\/revisions\/58631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}