{"id":101376,"date":"2021-06-27T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101376"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:20:19","slug":"ode-to-diet-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ode-to-diet-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"ode to Diet Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you&#8217;ve been a sobering presence<br \/>\nyour fake, sweetened bubbles<br \/>\nsoothe my nauseous whims<br \/>\nand on this night called marathon<br \/>\nit is you that keeps my marrow on<br \/>\noh, diet coke, oh<\/p>\n<p>this ode<br \/>\na most pretentious code<br \/>\nmy Grandfather&#8217;s daily drink<br \/>\nI think<br \/>\nand now on the brink of poems<br \/>\nfour and twenty<br \/>\nyou and I have had plenty<br \/>\nof drooling pooling schooling ink<br \/>\nas your glass I clink<br \/>\nand dink<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s ice<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no ice<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s bottles and cans<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a twist of lime<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s so many fans<br \/>\noh, diet coke, oh<br \/>\nthis ode&#8217;s full of woe<\/p>\n<p>I often think from you I should wean<br \/>\nI worry that those ingredients are just not clean<br \/>\nfor my body<br \/>\nmy brain<br \/>\nmy spirit<br \/>\nmy disdain<br \/>\nknows that you are just a habit<br \/>\nthe kind I&#8217;m wont to break<br \/>\nbut Diet Coke<br \/>\nto finish this race<br \/>\nthis Ode&#8217;s for you to take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you&#8217;ve been a sobering presence your fake, sweetened bubbles soothe my nauseous whims and on this night called marathon it is you that keeps my marrow on oh, diet coke, oh this ode a most pretentious code my Grandfather&#8217;s daily drink I think and now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101376","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101454,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101376\/revisions\/101454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}