{"id":2096,"date":"2019-07-02T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:17:47","slug":"the-frog-by-jennifer-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"The Frog, by Jennifer Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Frog<\/p>\n<p>By<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The frog with gold-flecked sclera and black, almond pupils&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Sloped back&#8211;green, gleaming with brown moons\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Waits until the last second before leaping<\/p>\n<p>From the half-submerged log into algae-murky waters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once I am up the road aways, mind thinking through shafts of light<\/p>\n<p>Of what it would be like to be so smoothly elusive,<\/p>\n<p>Its head inconspicuously breaks the surface of the pond,<\/p>\n<p>Scoping it out, making sure I\u2019m good and gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/log-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2097\" src=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/log-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/log-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/log-photo.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frog By Jennifer Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; The frog with gold-flecked sclera and black, almond pupils&#8211; Sloped back&#8211;green, gleaming with brown moons\u2014 Waits until the last second before leaping From the half-submerged log into algae-murky waters. &nbsp; Once I am up the road aways, mind thinking through shafts of light Of what it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1376,1374,1377,900,1375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}