{"id":71708,"date":"2020-06-27T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71708"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:28:27","slug":"h13-herding-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/h13-herding-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"H13: Herding Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Move along, little dowgies,<\/p>\n<p>Er, uh, kitties<\/p>\n<p>Move along more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feed and water,<\/p>\n<p>Scoop, scoop, scoop.<\/p>\n<p>Lint Roller roundup<\/p>\n<p>For the whole troupe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two fetch, one rolls over,<\/p>\n<p>Especially for treats.<\/p>\n<p>And one eats bones<\/p>\n<p>that a dog likes to eat!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peekaboo, Junebug, Gomez, and Daisy<\/p>\n<p>Laying around, just being lazy,<\/p>\n<p>Until one wants to play<\/p>\n<p>And the others go crazy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And one that\u2019s in love with a glass garden bunny.<\/p>\n<p>We watch her snuggle and think that it\u2019s funny\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s cheaper than counseling\u2014cat shrinks cost money!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s the one that uses the can\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he sits there\u2014at least that\u2019s the plan<\/p>\n<p>But we can\u2019t get him to flush\u2014just like a man!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then as twilight fades and the stars all light,<\/p>\n<p>We each have a snack and turn in for the night.<\/p>\n<p>And four little furries cuddle me tight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 2 3 4 Move along, little dowgies, Er, uh, kitties Move along more. &nbsp; Feed and water, Scoop, scoop, scoop. Lint Roller roundup For the whole troupe. &nbsp; Two fetch, one rolls over, Especially for treats. And one eats bones that a dog likes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71746,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708\/revisions\/71746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}