{"id":101615,"date":"2021-06-27T05:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101615"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:51:37","slug":"an-ode-to-holy-writings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/an-ode-to-holy-writings\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Holy Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">When a man wakes with the yearning<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">of a lad for breast milk, he sucks<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">whatever looks like a nipple.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is not me even though<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">this poems says I&#8217;m hungry<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">for holy writings, for solid food.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lead not to my abode, the clergy<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">who wouldn&#8217;t read from the scripture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My dog hasn&#8217;t eaten flesh in a while.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My mouth is blessed with high spirit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">If you ever read about the man declared<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">happy for counting the scribbled letters,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">you&#8217;d understand when I said I am<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">a citrus tree at the riverbank.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a man wakes with the yearning of a lad for breast milk, he sucks whatever looks like a nipple. This is not me even though this poems says I&#8217;m hungry for holy writings, for solid food. Lead not to my abode, the clergy who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101615","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101624,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101615\/revisions\/101624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}