{"id":1417,"date":"2013-11-01T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2015-01-24T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T14:39:06","slug":"raining-cats-at-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/raining-cats-at-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Raining Cats at Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2723\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2723\" alt=\"Witch flies at Halloween dusk searching for her cat...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Witch-in-the-Night-Sky-at-Halloween.jpg\" width=\"916\" height=\"402\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Witch flies at Halloween dusk searching for her cat&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Its raining cats and dogs, I thought to myself,<br \/>\nAs I walked down in the rain&#8230;<br \/>\nAs a cat is seemed to fall out of the very sky,<br \/>\nI stopped and looked up, thinking myself insane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, cats they cannot fly, and there was no trees to fall from,<br \/>\nI said Id better cop on to myself and carry on home soon,<br \/>\nAs the cat crawled between my ankles, meowing at the sky,<br \/>\nIt looked like the shadow of a woman on a broom!<\/p>\n<p>I thought quickly of a prayer against malevolent spirits there,<br \/>\nAs more vigorously the cat wove between my feet,<br \/>\nShe had landed on hers, out of god knows where,<br \/>\nSo I whispered my prayer, my breath, beneath.<\/p>\n<p>If there are no trees, no walls, and it falls out of the sky,<br \/>\nWhere to hold a cat there is no room,<br \/>\nAnd everybody knows, like a penguin, a cat cant fly&#8230;<br \/>\nIts Halloween&#8230; it must have fallen from a Broom!<\/p>\n<p>It seemed the moon darkened, as from it a shadow seemed to grow:<br \/>\nWas the witch for her cat coming back?<br \/>\nI chanted a few more prayers, as my heart started beating fast&#8230;<br \/>\nAs I seemed to be having a panic attack.<\/p>\n<p>I blinked&#8230; and from my eyes the spirit disappeared&#8230;<br \/>\nMaybe it was just a shadow after all&#8230;<br \/>\nAll of a sudden, a hare crossed to road in front of where I walked,<br \/>\nThe cat in fear from it fled across a wall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its raining cats and dogs, I thought to myself, As I walked down in the rain&#8230; As a cat is seemed to fall out of the very sky, I stopped and looked up, thinking myself insane&#8230; Now, cats they cannot fly, and there was no trees to fall from, I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89],"tags":[975,1626,1207],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","tag-cat","tag-haloween","tag-rain","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-mR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":731,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tomcats-chasing-pussies\/","url_meta":{"origin":1417,"position":0},"title":"Tomcats Chasing Pussies","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomcats are chasing pussys and they howling at the sky But the pussy cats having none of it, his loving she'll deny They'll howl and screech half the night, keeping me awake Before getting down to business, howling for howling's sake... 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