{"id":102379,"date":"2021-06-27T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102379"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:08:17","slug":"cheese-an-ode-in-six-stanzas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/cheese-an-ode-in-six-stanzas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheese (aged Kilmerish)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I shall never eat<br \/>\nA poem lovely as most cheese.<\/p>\n<p>A cheese whose hungry body is prest<br \/>\nAgainst my taste buds, Mmmm \u2013 the best!<\/p>\n<p>A cheese that sits with God all day,<br \/>\nAnd learns to sit, and sit, and age;<\/p>\n<p>A cheese smoothly covered in waxy lacquer<br \/>\nCan be sliced and placed atop a cracker!<\/p>\n<p>Upon whose bosom mold has sat;<br \/>\nWho intimately lives with fat.<\/p>\n<p>Poems are made by folks like me,<br \/>\nBut only cows, goats, sheep, buffalo,<br \/>\nand cheesemakers can make cheese!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd  <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I shall never eat A poem lovely as most cheese. A cheese whose hungry body is prest Against my taste buds, Mmmm \u2013 the best! A cheese that sits with God all day, And learns to sit, and sit, and age; A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4800,4827,2754,4865,898,1739,165],"class_list":["post-102379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021hour23","tag-2021prompt23","tag-cheese","tag-kilmer","tag-ode","tag-odes","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102379","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103752,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102379\/revisions\/103752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}