{"id":95092,"date":"2021-06-26T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95092"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:00:11","slug":"faithful-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/faithful-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He sticks closer to me than any human.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Doesn\u2019t judge me and takes me for who<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am. Ready to play frisbee toss and walk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the farmer\u2019s fields looking for deer paths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am the Alpha of the pack, he is the Beta,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>but he pays no mind to that, except when<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>correction is needed. Bad breath and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>slobbering tongue do not stand in the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>He squats on the grass and does his<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>business and then expects me to clean up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>which I reluctantly do since he doesn\u2019t<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>use a litter box or know how to flush.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>He wakes me up at 2 or 3 or 4 AM whatever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>suits his fancy. He doesn\u2019t mind that I cant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>go back to sleep. But lays back down in his <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>corner and drops in to canine slumber.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>He can be a royal pain. But all in all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I would not trade him for all of the<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>gold in the world. Or for a cat either.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sticks closer to me than any human. Doesn\u2019t judge me and takes me for who I am. Ready to play frisbee toss and walk the farmer\u2019s fields looking for deer paths. &nbsp; I am the Alpha of the pack, he is the Beta, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95092","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\/2886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95126,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95092\/revisions\/95126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}