{"id":56674,"date":"2019-06-23T05:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56674"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:36:36","slug":"tyson-a-tanka-poem-hour-twenty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/tyson-a-tanka-poem-hour-twenty-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson (A Tanka Poem, Hour Twenty One)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Tyson<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">(Yes, he was a Boxer!)<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My gentle giant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ninety pounds of fun and fur,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You kept me laughing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Your silly smile soothed my soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You left pawprints on my heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-56803 \" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5178-e1561282320606-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5178-e1561282320606-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5178-e1561282320606-768x851.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5178-e1561282320606-924x1024.jpg 924w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5178-e1561282320606.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56804 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5314-e1561282141562-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5314-e1561282141562-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5314-e1561282141562-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5314-e1561282141562.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(A tanka is a five line poem with the syllable count 5\/7\/5\/7\/7. This poem was inspired by the Hour 21 prompt to write about an animal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson (Yes, he was a Boxer!) &nbsp; My gentle giant, Ninety pounds of fun and fur, You kept me laughing. Your silly smile soothed my soul. You left pawprints on my heart. &nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#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":[3312,3314,732,3313],"class_list":["post-56674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-animal-prompt","tag-boxer","tag-tanka","tag-tyson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674","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=56674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56849,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674\/revisions\/56849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}