{"id":357,"date":"2025-03-14T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:00:27","slug":"winged-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/03\/14\/winged-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"Winged Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because cats would grow wings just to mess with us if they could.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cat folds her wings in the garden
\nShe drives all the squirrels away
\nThen suns herself without asking for pardon
\nAnd won\u2019t even come over to play!<\/p>\n

My brother chases her daily
\nAnd I offer saucers of milk,
\nBut always she flies away gaily
\nOver fields to the rest of her ilk.<\/p>\n

So often we\u2019ve tried hard to follow
\nBut always she flies so fast
\nThat we see only mouse and barn swallow
\nAnd the sheep dog asleep in the grass.<\/p>\n

Where does she go from our arbor?
\nWho has taught her to fly?
\nWhy is our garden her parlor?
\nAre there fairies there that pass by?<\/p>\n

Winged Mischief<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2025 all rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because cats would grow wings just to mess with us if they could. The cat folds her wings in the garden She drives all the squirrels away Then suns herself without asking for pardon And won\u2019t even come over to play! My brother chases her daily And I offer saucers of milk, But always she… Read More Winged Mischief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[19,11,18],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-childrens","tag-poetry","tag-whimsy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wyrdbard_A_winged_cat_sitting_smuggly_in_a_garden_washing_her_p_14ad5bcf-3574-4450-929e-e85ec698ee19.png?fit=1024%2C1024","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parUcj-5L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":387,"url":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/05\/06\/winter-wings\/","url_meta":{"origin":357,"position":0},"title":"Winter Wings","author":"Heather","date":"May 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"An odd one for spring but sometimes something hits me. 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