{"id":95562,"date":"2021-06-26T18:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95562"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:42:29","slug":"the-poet-takes-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-poet-takes-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet Takes a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rain gauge says almost two inches of rain.<br \/>\nIn the brief respite,<br \/>\nthe dogs and I go out.<br \/>\nMy bones, and the weather app, tell me<br \/>\nit isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n<p>My job is to feed the chickens<br \/>\nand chase a packrat out of the coop.<br \/>\nThe dogs patrol the fence<br \/>\nand keep an eye on me.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m out<br \/>\nI pick a handful of green beans<br \/>\nand one ripening tomato.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll cook tomorrow,<br \/>\nand mop up the muddy paw prints in the entry.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m writing,<br \/>\neating out of the fridge,<br \/>\nand letting the dogs run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rain gauge says almost two inches of rain. In the brief respite, the dogs and I go out. My bones, and the weather app, tell me it isn&#8217;t over yet. My job is to feed the chickens and chase a packrat out of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95562","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95693,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95562\/revisions\/95693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}