{"id":61812,"date":"2020-06-27T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61812"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:06:13","slug":"the-purest-of-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-purest-of-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purest of Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here, thinking, typing, deleting, retyping<br \/>\nI hear you in the other room<br \/>\nArguing with our dachshund<br \/>\nJackJack<br \/>\nAnd I can&#8217;t help, but smile<\/p>\n<p>You two going back and forth<br \/>\nYou, telling him,<br \/>\n&#8220;No! Stop chewing on mommy!&#8221;<br \/>\nHim,<br \/>\n*whine*<br \/>\n*growl*<br \/>\n*grumble*<br \/>\n*whine*<br \/>\nMe, listening<br \/>\nImagining the sight<br \/>\nAs my heart playfully battles with a pup<br \/>\nSmiling at the thought of how patient you are<br \/>\nHow much love you have to give<br \/>\nHow good a person you are<\/p>\n<p>In spite of all you endured<\/p>\n<p>It is why I admire you<br \/>\nAnd aspire to be<br \/>\nSo much better than I am<br \/>\nSo much better than I was<br \/>\nWhen you first met me<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just chastised him about bullying our cats<br \/>\nTrying to make them *squeak* like his favorite toys<br \/>\nWhich they do, sometimes<br \/>\nAll the while I hear him<br \/>\nIn response<br \/>\n*whine*<br \/>\n*growl*<br \/>\n*grumble*<br \/>\n*whine*<br \/>\nAnd you laugh<br \/>\nSo pure a sound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here, thinking, typing, deleting, retyping I hear you in the other room Arguing with our dachshund JackJack And I can&#8217;t help, but smile You two going back and forth You, telling him, &#8220;No! Stop chewing on mommy!&#8221; Him, *whine* *growl* *grumble* *whine*&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61812","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62589,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61812\/revisions\/62589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}