{"id":258,"date":"2018-11-16T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:29:15","slug":"no-kill-kennel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/no-kill-kennel\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kill Kennel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No Kill Kennel<\/strong><br \/>\nI know<br \/>\n the neighbor\u2019s dog lives in the weather:<br \/>\nrain\/mud, snow\/sleet, hot\/cold.<\/p>\n<p>I know<br \/>\nwhen the dog stops just short<br \/>\nof its five foot chain, it wants to roll<br \/>\nin the grass, smell the green of the horse\u2019s meadow,<br \/>\ndrink from the clear stream.<\/p>\n<p>I know<br \/>\nthe dog was forced to live in its foul soilings.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot<br \/>\nwatch the filmed appeals to save this dog, this cat, this horse.<\/p>\n<p>I can<br \/>\nwalk the kennel dogs,<br \/>\nlisten to the dry leaves crackle.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tto be published in The Homestead Review Spring of 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Kill Kennel I know the neighbor\u2019s dog lives in the weather: rain\/mud, snow\/sleet, hot\/cold. I know when the dog stops just short of its five foot chain, it wants to roll in the grass, smell the green of the horse\u2019s meadow, drink from the clear stream. I know the dog was forced to live&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/no-kill-kennel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Kill Kennel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}