{"id":75834,"date":"2020-06-28T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75834"},"modified":"2020-06-28T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:11:53","slug":"prompt-23-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-23-armour\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 23: Armour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been planning on getting a dog.<br \/>\nAs though we consulted a book of <del datetime=\"2020-06-28T11:05:22+00:00\">baby<\/del> puppy names,<br \/>\none of us came up with one that would be perfect for a little scrunch-faced bulldog: Armour.<\/p>\n<p>We have routines like the young couple from John Osborne&#8217;s <em>Look Back in Anger<\/em>,<br \/>\nminus the class animosity, that we&#8217;ve built around this dog, who will be the most<br \/>\nanticipated pet of any household.<\/p>\n<p>Little Armour will be pleased to know Ron has already developed his voice.<br \/>\nThat he&#8217;s a got an extemporaneous flair for creating dialogue is a perk. Poor Armour<br \/>\nmay wonder, though, if he&#8217;s being spoken to or if his owner is deranged.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we see a bulldog, we think of Armour, but we know our Armour will be our own.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re not dog nappers, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Armour is less imaginary than he is a <em>bullprint<\/em> of the dog we hope<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll find waiting for us one day. If androids <em>did <\/em>dream &#8220;of electric sheep,&#8221;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s possible to imagine a little bulldog dreaming of the owners ready to devote to him slavishly.<\/p>\n<p>Or, so my sleepy mind considers it this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been planning on getting a dog. As though we consulted a book of baby puppy names, one of us came up with one that would be perfect for a little scrunch-faced bulldog: Armour. We have routines like the young couple from John Osborne&#8217;s Look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75834","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76996,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75834\/revisions\/76996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}