{"id":1119,"date":"2008-04-24T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:12:17","slug":"waterlogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2008\/04\/waterlogged\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterlogged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Sticks are too small to waste her time with\nOnly branches will do\nI break a nice big one down to 5 feet\n we walk down to the stream\nWe could go on and on\n forever casting and fetching\nI throw it out beyond the bend\n she stops as she approaches it\n her face all perplexity\n and looks into the water just under her\nWith a strange backward digging effort\n she thrashes\n dives her head into the water\n and exhumes a waterlogged 12\u2013foot branch\nWith glee, she trots back with it\nSometimes, she\u2019ll voraciously\n chew up an over\u2013sized log dredged from the depths\n biting away in continuous joy and concentrated angst\n with the occasional bit of wood wedged in her teeth\n Sometimes, she\u2019ll disintegrate the whole thing to shreds\nThis time, we cast and fetch\n over and over\n a rainbow in each splash\nToo big for us to carry away in comfort<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticks are too small to waste her time with Only branches will do I break a nice big one down to 5 feet we walk down to the stream We could go on and on forever casting and fetching I throw it out beyond the bend she stops as she approaches it her face all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,29],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-4-etc","tag-lexi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}