{"id":1955,"date":"2010-04-20T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/finally\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:00:35","slug":"finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>The day finally comes<br \/>\nwhen you have to lift your dog<br \/>\ndown from the truck.<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t matter that for years<br \/>\nhe has cleared that distance<br \/>\nin a bound.<br \/>\nOr that he hates for you<br \/>\nto pick him up.<br \/>\nHe stands at the tailgate<br \/>\neying the distance;<br \/>\ndoes he think his leg<br \/>\nmay give in again?<br \/>\nHe waits a long time<br \/>\nas if just surveying the scene &#8212;<br \/>\nnot asking for help,<br \/>\njust enduring it.<br \/>\nWith a dignity<br \/>\nThat makes you cry. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>7\/17\/06<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Written 3 years before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/lucky-dog-2\/\">Lucky Dog<\/a> died.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day finally comes when you have to lift your dog down from the truck. It doesn\u2019t matter that for years he has cleared that distance in a bound. Or that he hates for you to pick him up. He stands at the tailgate eying the distance; does he think his leg may give in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/finally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[73,94,105],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-age","tag-dogs","tag-unbooked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}