{"id":57144,"date":"2019-06-23T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57144"},"modified":"2019-06-23T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:30:06","slug":"hour-22-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-22-8\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a grey squirrel scampering<br \/>\nup a sweet gum tree with a plastic<br \/>\nyogurt cup clenched between his teeth.<br \/>\ndisgusted by how our waste harms<br \/>\nthe wildlife we share space with,<br \/>\nI thought to take a picture with my phone,<br \/>\nso that I could post in on my social media feed<br \/>\nand publicly shame fellow members of my species.<br \/>\nBut the squirrel, delighted to satiate his hunger,<br \/>\ndid not want to pose for me, and I had to interrupt<br \/>\nmy three-year-old\u2019s piggyback ride to even get to my phone,<br \/>\nwhich didn\u2019t make him happy,<br \/>\nand I lost the squirrel somewhere above<br \/>\nthe overlapping branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a grey squirrel scampering up a sweet gum tree with a plastic yogurt cup clenched between his teeth. disgusted by how our waste harms the wildlife we share space with, I thought to take a picture with my phone, so that I could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57144","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57149,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57144\/revisions\/57149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}