{"id":7682,"date":"2015-06-13T11:38:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:38:46","slug":"mammoth-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/mammoth-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catfish strung on lines tied to the dock.<\/p>\n<p>Whiskers wiggling, tails flapping, struggling to get free.<\/p>\n<p>Among them, the grand prize:\u00a0 the Mammoth Cat<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t struggle<\/p>\n<p>Just lies in wait<\/p>\n<p>Plotting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too much sun, too much beer<\/p>\n<p>To even exaggerate the size<\/p>\n<p>But he was like the Loch ness of the Lake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Skin burning, stomachs growling, greeting the next morning with a fog of sobriety<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating a breakfast of fish and eggs<\/p>\n<p>Mammoth Cat was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>He had escaped<\/p>\n<p>A<\/p>\n<p>Much<\/p>\n<p>Smarter<\/p>\n<p>Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catfish strung on lines tied to the dock. Whiskers wiggling, tails flapping, struggling to get free. Among them, the grand prize:\u00a0 the Mammoth Cat He doesn\u2019t struggle Just lies in wait Plotting. &nbsp; Too much sun, too much beer To even exaggerate the size But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7706,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions\/7706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}