{"id":78299,"date":"2020-07-08T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=78299"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:30:03","slug":"bunny-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/bunny-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunny Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bunny Love<\/p>\n<p>(A Bop)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A hawk stares down on me<\/p>\n<p>from high above, I see a dove.<\/p>\n<p>Na\u00efve bunny that I am<\/p>\n<p>I bop along sunny bunny trail<\/p>\n<p>grass beaten down just enough<\/p>\n<p>to show me where to go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bunny love is funny love<\/p>\n<p>but can also be a boxing glove.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can I love myself?<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter if I swing and miss?<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter if I fall down flat?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t the team depend on me?<\/p>\n<p>My ancestors and descendants<\/p>\n<p>stare down from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Pelt me in an indecipherable sound that<\/p>\n<p>may be cheers, boos or indifferent chatting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bunny love is funny love<\/p>\n<p>but can also be a boxing glove.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I need to figure out what to do<\/p>\n<p>but there is nothing to figure out.<\/p>\n<p>I need to be in this moment<\/p>\n<p>as if the stands aren\u2019t there<\/p>\n<p>as if everything and nothing are the same<\/p>\n<p>as if the answer is a little further down this bunny trail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bunny love is funny love<\/p>\n<p>but can also be a boxing glove.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bunny Love (A Bop) &nbsp; A hawk stares down on me from high above, I see a dove. Na\u00efve bunny that I am I bop along sunny bunny trail grass beaten down just enough to show me where to go. &nbsp; Bunny love is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78299","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78300,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78299\/revisions\/78300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}