{"id":867,"date":"2012-11-15T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=867"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:41:14","slug":"to-the-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/11\/15\/to-the-ant\/","title":{"rendered":"TO THE ANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=BRIA&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">BRIA<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>The small ebony colored creature<br \/>\nWalks miles and miles all day,<br \/>\nSearching for crumbs of life.<\/p>\n<p>To you, the blades of grass are skyscrapers.<br \/>\nA tiny dust particle is an elephant.<\/p>\n<p>You work in alliance to build your homes of<br \/>\nCaked mud and crumbling dirt.<\/p>\n<p>You creep in my house when you smell something good.<br \/>\nYou like to swarm together on top of a crumb,<br \/>\nAll stacked up like a pile of pancakes.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy food you carry on your back must get tiring,<br \/>\nReminds me of the baggage I carry and can\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n<p>You must be sad because you are always the smallest thing around,<br \/>\nGoing un-noticed like a midget exchange student in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to say, I do not like you.<br \/>\nI am just too scared.<br \/>\nThe thought of you makes me squirm with goose bumps and chills.<br \/>\nI wish you would crawl back into your hill<br \/>\nAnd NEVER come out.<br \/>\nI hate ants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=BRIA&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\" target=\"_blank\">BRIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The small ebony colored creature<br \/> Walks miles and miles all day,<br \/> Searching for crumbs of life.<\/p>\n<p>To you, the blades of grass are skyscrapers.<br \/> A tiny dust particle is an elephant.<\/p>\n<p>You work in alliance to build your homes of<br \/> Caked mud and crumbling dirt.<\/p>\n<p>You creep [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79535],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-bria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}