I put Shasta down<\/p>\n
Well, the vet did, but<\/p>\n
I was there in a blue<\/p>\n
plastic chair whispering<\/p>\n
good girl \u00a0mama’s good girl<\/em><\/p>\n Her chest was full of fluid<\/p>\n She couldn’t breathe<\/p>\n That evening I took a walk<\/p>\n at the same time we always<\/p>\n took a walk and when I<\/p>\n came up the slope just past<\/p>\n the ditch with the big rocks<\/p>\n the sunrise was orange<\/p>\n The same orange as Shasta<\/p>\n I began to sob and I was glad<\/p>\n no one else was around<\/p>\n The more orange the sky<\/p>\n became, the more I cried<\/p>\n I tried to tell myself the sky<\/p>\n was a sign from Shasta and<\/p>\n I tried to let her go, but it<\/p>\n has been 360 days since then<\/p>\n and my heart still aches<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I put Shasta down Well, the vet did, but I was there in a blue plastic chair whispering good girl \u00a0mama’s good girl Her chest was full of fluid She couldn’t breathe That evening I took a walk at the same time we always took…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97780","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98273,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97780\/revisions\/98273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}