{"id":3051,"date":"2011-04-29T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/songdogs\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:57:37","slug":"songdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/songdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Songdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a couple    <br \/>\non the breathless trail     <br \/>\nto Pueblo Alto.     <br \/>\nThey were dressed identically     <br \/>\nin long-sleeve white shirts     <br \/>\nand khaki-colored nylon pants &#8212;     <br \/>\noddly well-groomed in a wild place.     <br \/>\nThey grinned at me     <br \/>as they approached,     <br \/>\nand I thought I heard her say,     <br \/>\n&quot;Hello, Mark.&quot;     <br \/>\nBut how? Did I know them?     <br \/>\nI asked how they were and she replied,     <br \/>\n&quot;Wonderful. How about you?&quot;     <br \/>\nShe sang her words     <br \/>\nlike someone unfamiliar     <br \/>\nwith human speech.     <br \/>\nOnly then did I recognize them &#8212;     <br \/>\ncoyotes are so clever. <em><sub style=\"color: red\">mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><small>3\/31\/10<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to <a href='http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/songdogs.mp3' class=\"wpaudio\">Songdogs<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/my-virtual-chapbook\/\">My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a couple on the breathless trail to Pueblo Alto. They were dressed identically in long-sleeve white shirts and khaki-colored nylon pants &#8212; oddly well-groomed in a wild place. They grinned at me as they approached, and I thought I heard her say, &quot;Hello, Mark.&quot; But how? Did I know them? I asked how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/songdogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Songdogs<\/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":[143],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-coyotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}