{"id":7880,"date":"0202-04-09T14:57:10","date_gmt":"0202-04-09T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:00:47","slug":"morning-walk-with-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/morning-walk-with-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Walk (with Rover)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.18172-8\/902116_10200110858193286_226339372_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=9b3078&amp;_nc_ohc=lD83eUf7MugAX-07ozl&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&amp;oh=00_AfCXWmxj6_hFmv3V6y1GF5MdXwgT4mhHyiYP-wHz6jUK3A&amp;oe=65F4786F\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" \/>Morning Walk<\/p>\n<p>Poopinator and I are off at dawn,<br \/>\nor nearly so,<br \/>\nto mark the world anew,<br \/>\nand so proclaim that we,<br \/>\nand it, are both still here,<br \/>\nleaving marks so strong and clear<br \/>\nthat every nose may attest<br \/>\nthat here we roved on dewy grass<br \/>\nand stopped at every tree we passed<\/p>\n<p>To leave a clue that others may attend<br \/>\nwith scrutiny that would surpass<br \/>\nthe divination of seers<br \/>\nover dark and bitter dregs,<br \/>\nor fowl entrails,<br \/>\nthough it must be said,<br \/>\nthat these would offer other tales,<br \/>\nno less compelling to our writer<br \/>\nor his kind.<\/p>\n<p>Out, out as far as the nose can see,<br \/>\nbeyond this block, beyond that tree,<br \/>\nout as far as the leash will stretch.<br \/>\nUntil it snaps taught, leaving us straining<br \/>\nat the distant shore.<\/p>\n<p>Then back, short leashed, past chances lost,<br \/>\npast roads not taken, and those not crossed,<br \/>\nuntil at last the scent of home<br \/>\na new drive awakens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Walk Poopinator and I are off at dawn, or nearly so, to mark the world anew, and so proclaim that we, and it, are both still here, leaving marks so strong and clear that every nose may attest that here we roved on dewy grass and stopped at every tree we passed To leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}