{"id":144,"date":"2023-12-04T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:14:30","slug":"waiting-for-toast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/a-conversation-with-my-dog\/waiting-for-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talk to my Staffie,<br \/>\nwho is just lying there waiting,<br \/>\nwaiting, looking at me with the whites of his eyes,<br \/>\nwaiting for toast.<\/p>\n<p>I tell him things are going to plan with the house,<br \/>\nwalls being painted,<br \/>\ncupboards being fixed,<br \/>\nbut the mould&#8217;s still there.<br \/>\nWe keep the windows open.<\/p>\n<p>I tell him someone made a fool\u00a0 of someone else,<br \/>\nbehind their back,<br \/>\ntwo families disagreeing,<br \/>\nI still don&#8217;t know which one to believe.<\/p>\n<p>I tell him my head is a string bag,<br \/>\nthat is full to the top,<br \/>\nthen it bursts.<br \/>\nI pick it all up and have to put it back in.<\/p>\n<p>My bag is full again,<\/p>\n<p>I tell him my life is like a leaf from a tree,<br \/>\nfalling from the branches,<br \/>\nstarting again when I feel alive.<\/p>\n<p>Irene Drummond (14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talk to my Staffie, who is just lying there waiting, waiting, looking at me with the whites of his eyes, waiting for toast. I tell him things are going to plan with the house, walls being painted, cupboards being fixed, but the mould&#8217;s still there. We keep the windows open. I tell him someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11167,"featured_media":158,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ourpoemsbhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}