{"id":529,"date":"2005-12-22T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valderbar.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/22\/a-long-poem-called-the-big-gift\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T22:14:00","slug":"a-long-poem-called-the-big-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/2005\/12\/22\/a-long-poem-called-the-big-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"a long poem called the big gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Gift<\/p>\n<p>The room was all murky<br \/>\nno human yet home<br \/>\nbut my eyes could make out<br \/>\non my circuitous roam<br \/>\nan unguarded jacket  &#8211;<br \/>\nI could make a nest<br \/>\nspend a peaceful hour<br \/>\nin tail o&#8217;er nose deep rest.<\/p>\n<p>I mounted the table,<br \/>\nperformed such a leap<br \/>\nthat I impressed myself,<br \/>\nand with no one to see.<\/p>\n<p>I was lying all curled<br \/>\nin a form sweetly supine<br \/>\nThe wind it was howling<br \/>\nwith a voice so canine<br \/>\nwhen what should take ears<br \/>\nfor a super long stretch<br \/>\nbut a great rukus of tom<br \/>\nwith grunt, curse and kvetch.<\/p>\n<p>the door burst open<br \/>\nand in his arms laid a tree,<br \/>\nsmelling of pine gum, fresh air,<br \/>\nsquirrels, chickadees&#8230; for me?!<\/p>\n<p>I forgot my cozy corner<br \/>\nforgave how it was cooled<br \/>\nsniffing, looking as I pranced<br \/>\n(sidestepping the ex-snow pools)<br \/>\nThe humans looked tired,<br \/>\nall wet in their mitts and coats<br \/>\nI was glad to have them home<br \/>\nfor some mutual dotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Gift The room was all murky no human yet home but my eyes could make out on my circuitous roam an unguarded jacket &#8211; I could make a nest spend a peaceful hour in tail o&#8217;er nose deep rest. I mounted the table, performed such a leap that I impressed myself, and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlpirie.com\/catnips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}