{"id":4482,"date":"2020-10-22T21:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2020-10-22T21:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:40:04","slug":"felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4482","title":{"rendered":"FELIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Space<\/em> was the theme of this year&#8217;s <em>Friends of the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest.\u00a0<\/em> Here is my contribution that won honorable mention in the adult section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong>Felix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>the other day<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>my cat passed away<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>bundled in his old bed<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>held snugly in my arms<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>on the back porch<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>in the sunshine<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>the vet administered the shot<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>and in his new stillness<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>the space between us<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>revealed now as<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>impossible<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>and<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><em>real<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"CENTER\"><em>copyright 2020 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Space was the theme of this year&#8217;s Friends of the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest.\u00a0 Here is my contribution that won honorable mention in the adult section. &nbsp; &nbsp; Felix the other day my cat passed away bundled in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}