{"id":97,"date":"2009-12-05T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:03:01","slug":"hippobottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/hippobottom","title":{"rendered":"The Hippobottamus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hippobotamus-liz-new-master-jpeg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hippobotamus-liz-new-master-jpeg-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hippobotamus-liz-new-master-jpeg-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hippobotamus-liz-new-master-jpeg-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Hippobotamus-liz-new-master-jpeg-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hippos can open their mouths up to four feet wide\u2026 but they only eat grass and shrubbery. They always live in and near water, but they can\u2019t swim because they are much too heavy. They stand on and walk along the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Because the places where hippos can live are getting fewer, they are in danger of becoming extinct.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Liz Brownlee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/poems\">Back to Poems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hippos can open their mouths up to four feet wide\u2026 but they only eat grass and shrubbery. They always live in and near water, but they can\u2019t swim because they are much too heavy. They stand on and walk along the bottom. Because the places where hippos can live are getting fewer, they are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[211,212],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shape-poems","tag-hippopotamus-shape-poem","tag-animal-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}