{"id":3679,"date":"2021-04-20T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2021-04-20T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:07:39","slug":"my-little-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/my-little-man\/","title":{"rendered":"my little man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i have this cat<br \/>\nfour years old<br \/>\nwhite and black, special<br \/>\ni inherited him<br \/>\nbut he quickly became<br \/>\na member of the family<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s quiet<br \/>\nkeeps to himself<br \/>\nmostly<br \/>\nthen he has moments<br \/>\nbursts of grand inquisition<br \/>\nwhere his status of background cat<br \/>\nis overcome with the need<br \/>\nto touch all the humans<br \/>\nhe hops at your hand<br \/>\nand sits on the highest perch<br \/>\nstaring, with a mixed look of<br \/>\nanticipation and confusion<br \/>\nno one can resist<br \/>\npetting him then<br \/>\nsometimes he reaches up<br \/>\ngives you a high five<br \/>\nwith paws spread wide<br \/>\nother times he<br \/>\nkneads your thigh<br \/>\nlike an autistic soul<br \/>\nsearching for simple<br \/>\nsensory comforts<br \/>\ni love when he does that<br \/>\nbut damn, his nails are long, sharp<br \/>\nand he never lets me clip them<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s untamed, wild at heart<br \/>\nmaybe tonight i&#8217;ll give him<br \/>\nsome of that local organic catnip<br \/>\nget him nice and high<br \/>\nand try again<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/521-my-little-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3682\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/521-my-little-man-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"521-my-little-man\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/521-my-little-man-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/521-my-little-man-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/521-my-little-man.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}