{"id":101317,"date":"2021-06-27T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101317"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:00:08","slug":"i-pay-my-debts-in-words-rick-christiansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/i-pay-my-debts-in-words-rick-christiansen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI pay my debts in words.\u201d Rick Christiansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI pay my debts in words.\u201d Rick Christiansen<\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t pay my bills,<\/p>\n<p>won\u2019t buy cat food.<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t pay my rent,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>put gas in my car.<\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t win lotto,<\/p>\n<p>or a chance at a slot machine.<\/p>\n<p>They are mine,<\/p>\n<p>my gift to the universe.<\/p>\n<p>I can share them<\/p>\n<p>and smile in the received approval<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by audience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They are my vision,<\/p>\n<p>my muses and words.<\/p>\n<p>I pay debts to society<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>with my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI pay my debts in words.\u201d Rick Christiansen They won\u2019t pay my bills, won\u2019t buy cat food. They can\u2019t pay my rent,\u00a0 put gas in my car. They won\u2019t win lotto, or a chance at a slot machine. They are mine, my gift to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101341,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101317\/revisions\/101341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}