{"id":63451,"date":"2020-06-27T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63451"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:11:54","slug":"gigi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gigi\/","title":{"rendered":"GiGi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Lathering at the sides of your mouth,<\/p>\n

your tongue curled at the tip, you’d smile and let out a half bark.<\/p>\n

Black and white collie\/shepherd,<\/p>\n

you were a soft mass of long fur.<\/p>\n

Always excited to see us, you’d run up,<\/p>\n

cry out in dog laughter:\u00a0 “Hello.\u00a0 Glad you’re home.”<\/p>\n

You’d jump upon me, loving me, lapping my face with your kisses.<\/p>\n

Those darn claws had to be clipped.<\/p>\n

Your big body could not grip the stairs.<\/p>\n

When we’d leave you down in the basement, your tears welled with saliva<\/p>\n

as you’d look up to us saying:\u00a0 “I love you.\u00a0 I love you.”<\/p>\n

Waiting for our return, trying to get up the stairs, the door locked,<\/p>\n

your hind legs giving in…<\/p>\n

you’d hear the key turn and smell us.<\/p>\n

“I’m down here!\u00a0 Come and get me!\u00a0 I love you!\u00a0 I love you!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lathering at the sides of your mouth, your tongue curled at the tip, you’d smile and let out a half bark. Black and white collie\/shepherd, you were a soft mass of long fur. Always excited to see us, you’d run up, cry out in dog…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451","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\/1362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63607,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451\/revisions\/63607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}