{"id":6708,"date":"2012-12-19T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/?page_id=6708"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:36:18","slug":"what-it-is-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/what-it-is-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not what,<br \/>\ncarrying that<br \/>\nafterthought of legs,<br \/>\nhe runs to, and not<br \/>\nwhat his interrogative, foldy<br \/>\nface detects<br \/>\non the floor, because<br \/>\nit is always changing, always<br \/>\nturning out to be<br \/>\nsome other bug<br \/>\nor bush his nose wanted,<br \/>\nleaving his tail<br \/>\nsmoldering<br \/>\nbehind, and<br \/>\nit is never,<br \/>\nafter all that scratching<br \/>\nand lifting of leg,<br \/>\nenough; not even<br \/>\nafter he joins<br \/>\nthe dinner party, smiling<br \/>\nupside-down<br \/>\nand rolling<br \/>\nhis testicles, not even<br \/>\nin his whimpering sleep,<br \/>\ndreaming in the tips<br \/>\nof his paws<br \/>\nthat he is chasing<br \/>\nit, that very thing<br \/>\nwhich, scratching,<br \/>\nhe can\u2019t quite<br \/>\nreach, nor sniffing find,<br \/>\nbecause in the perfect<br \/>\nbrainlessness of dog,<br \/>\nhe will never know<br \/>\nwhat it is.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6708\" data-postid=\"6708\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6708 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not what, carrying that afterthought of legs, he runs to, and not what his interrogative, foldy face detects on the floor, because it is always changing, always turning out to be some other bug or bush his nose wanted, leaving his tail smoldering behind, and it is never, after all that scratching and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6708\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}