{"id":89555,"date":"2021-06-26T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89555"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:08:14","slug":"wag-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/wag-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tail of the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cujo Fido Hamilton, III<\/p>\n<p>Walked up to my door and left a turd.<\/p>\n<p>He peed all over my porch rail,<\/p>\n<p>Looked straight at me and wagged his tail.<\/p>\n<p>He bit my cat. He trashed my car.<\/p>\n<p>He and his dog have gone too far!<\/p>\n<p>Smug old bugger, both, they be;<\/p>\n<p>But they won&#8217;t get the better of me!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll taint their kibble with a bit of Ex-lax,<\/p>\n<p>Then watch them run while I relax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*A rework from a piece a few years back. Still not happy with it, but it is meant to be fun&#8230;maybe as a greeting card attached to home-made &#8216;chocolate chip&#8217; cookies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cujo Fido Hamilton, III Walked up to my door and left a turd. He peed all over my porch rail, Looked straight at me and wagged his tail. He bit my cat. He trashed my car. He and his dog have gone too far! Smug&#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-89555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89555","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=89555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89848,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89555\/revisions\/89848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}