{"id":69602,"date":"2020-06-27T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69602"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:00:35","slug":"lost-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lost-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST DOGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There won\u2019t be any stray dogs for a while.<br \/>\nNo beaches, no coconut trees, no towels,<br \/>\nbut it\u2019s the lost dogs I\u2019ll miss the most,<br \/>\nall of them Romeos looking for Juliets,<br \/>\nAnnabelles, Chlo\u00ebs, and Scheherazades.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re comfortable, candid and unashamed,<br \/>\nthey\u2019ll show you everything and nothing,<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll never know what they\u2019re up to,<br \/>\nand you\u2019re never invited to stag events.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, as there\u2019s an afterlife,<br \/>\nthey return as peacocks \u2013 tails with eyes,<br \/>\nscreeching sounds, and small crowns.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s only when they think they\u2019re alone<br \/>\nthat they bark.  It\u2019s their secret call.  No one,<br \/>\nno one, no one is ever allowed to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There won\u2019t be any stray dogs for a while. No beaches, no coconut trees, no towels, but it\u2019s the lost dogs I\u2019ll miss the most, all of them Romeos looking for Juliets, Annabelles, Chlo\u00ebs, and Scheherazades. They\u2019re comfortable, candid and unashamed, they\u2019ll show you everything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69992,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602\/revisions\/69992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}