{"id":206,"date":"2014-03-28T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:14:05","slug":"a-night-of-frogs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=206","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4C2B7B7D-971E-43DE-8362-AA4749795057_1_102_a.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4C2B7B7D-971E-43DE-8362-AA4749795057_1_102_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1409\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>A frog lives in our garden<br \/>in a pond beneath the tree.<br \/>I hear him croak at bedtime<br \/>as he says <em>goodnight<\/em> to me.<\/p>\n<p>A frog lives near our driveway<br \/>on a post below the light.<br \/>I sneak outside to see her<br \/>&#8217;cause she\u2019s only there at night.<\/p>\n<p>A frog lives in our laundry<br \/>in the corner of the wall.<br \/>I check on him soon after<br \/>to make sure he doesn\u2019t fall.<\/p>\n<p>A frog lives in our kitchen<br \/>in the space behind the sink.<br \/>She freezes in the torchlight<br \/>when I get myself a drink.<\/p>\n<p>A frog lives in our bathroom<br \/>and I don\u2019t know what to do!<br \/>He isn\u2019t where he should be!<br \/>Yuk! He\u2019s swimming in the loo!<\/p>\n<p>My mum comes in the bathroom,<br \/>plants a kiss upon my head.<br \/>\u2018The frogs are fine just where they are<br \/>but <em>you<\/em> should be in bed!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2014<\/p>\n<p>This poem is also in my poetry book,\u00a0<em>To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?\u00a0<\/em>(Glimmer Press, 2019).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frog lives in our gardenin a pond beneath the tree.I hear him croak at bedtimeas he says goodnight to me. A frog lives near our drivewayon a post below the light.I sneak outside to see her&#8217;cause she\u2019s only there at night. A frog lives in our laundryin the corner of the wall.I check on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":477,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/1411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}