{"id":8958,"date":"2015-06-13T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2015-06-13T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:56:30","slug":"maera-the-hound-of-erigone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/maera-the-hound-of-erigone\/","title":{"rendered":"Maera &#8211; The Hound of Erigone 6\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saluki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9953\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saluki-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Saluki\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saluki-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saluki-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saluki.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh Maera, virtuous hound&#8230;<br \/>\nSo much more than just a dog,<br \/>\nYou were Loyalty Incarnate.<\/p>\n<p>How swift your tread when you found<br \/>\nThe grave of Icarius,<br \/>\nFather of Erigone your mistress,<br \/>\nWhere he was murdered and buried\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When she hung herself<br \/>\nBecause of grief for her father<br \/>\nYour canine heart broke<br \/>\nAnd the tragedy became three-fold\u2026<\/p>\n<p>How vast your love<br \/>\nAnd how deep your grief<br \/>\nWhen you cast yourself<br \/>\nOff the cliff that day<br \/>\nAnd followed her soul<br \/>\nInto the afterlife\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The honor bestowed on you<br \/>\nWas bittersweet when you<br \/>\nBecame Procyon in Canis Minor<br \/>\nAnd Erigone became<br \/>\nThe Virgo constellation \u2013<br \/>\nSo close you were on Earth\u2026<br \/>\nYet so far apart among the stars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How beautiful your shining &#8211;<br \/>\nFor everyone to see \u2013<br \/>\nHow profound your sacrifice of Self \u2013<br \/>\nMaera \u2013 the Dog Star\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2015 Antoinette LeRoux<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/procyonstar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9937\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/procyonstar-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"procyonstar\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/procyonstar-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/procyonstar.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Maera, virtuous hound&#8230; So much more than just a dog, You were Loyalty Incarnate. How swift your tread when you found The grave of Icarius, Father of Erigone your mistress, Where he was murdered and buried\u2026 When she hung herself Because of grief for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}