{"id":461,"date":"2018-05-07T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:17:29","slug":"wishes-at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=461","title":{"rendered":"Wishes at the Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1C888343-9450-4366-AACE-CC6FCE7991ED_1_201_a.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1C888343-9450-4366-AACE-CC6FCE7991ED_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1405\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">I wish I was an otter pup<br \/>out swimming in my pool,<br \/>and playing chasey with my friends. <br \/>now wouldn\u2019t that be cool?<br \/>But listen to the noise I\u2019d make. <br \/>\u2018Squeak!\u2019 like a baby\u2019s toy.<br \/>And all those fish I\u2019d eat just stink! <br \/>It\u2019s not what I&#8217;d enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">I think I&#8217;ll be a pelican <br \/>who\u2019s snapping with my bill,<br \/>and catching things the keeper throws \u00a0<br \/>with super duper skill.<br \/>But what I&#8217;d catch are stinky fish! <br \/>Oh no! It\u2019s so unfair.<br \/>I\u2019d have to swallow them all whole! <br \/>It\u2019s more than I could bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">Perhaps I&#8217;ll be a lion cub<br \/>who&#8217;s roaring on my mound,<br \/>and playing rough and tumble with <br \/>my sisters on the ground.<br \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">I wouldn&#8217;t have to eat raw fish,<br \/><\/span>but &#8211; yuck! &#8211; it&#8217;s uncooked meat!<br \/>Why do my best-loved animals <br \/>have horrid food to eat?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\">I guess I\u2019ll stick with who I am:<br \/>a girl who\u2019s at the zoo.<br \/>And when I eat my lunch I know <br \/>that it <em>won\u2019t<\/em> make me spew.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2013<\/p>\n<p>A version of this poem is published in the book Tadpoles in the Torrens, edited by Jude Aquilina (Wakefield Press, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I was an otter pupout swimming in my pool,and playing chasey with my friends. now wouldn\u2019t that be cool?But listen to the noise I\u2019d make. \u2018Squeak!\u2019 like a baby\u2019s toy.And all those fish I\u2019d eat just stink! It\u2019s not what I&#8217;d enjoy. I think I&#8217;ll be a pelican who\u2019s snapping with my bill,and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":477,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/1415"}],"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=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}