{"id":102392,"date":"2021-06-27T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102392"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:29:51","slug":"23-unwilling-roommate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/23-unwilling-roommate\/","title":{"rendered":"23   Unwilling Roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houseplants are foster children<\/p>\n<p>I have purchased none of them<\/p>\n<p>Arriving hearing my apologies<\/p>\n<p>Unwanted gifts to be kept alive<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holding that all things green<\/p>\n<p>Belong outdoors where God planted<\/p>\n<p>Them on one of those seven days<\/p>\n<p>My yard holds nothing premeditated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Almost with regret I water the<\/p>\n<p>Five-foot avocado casually grown<\/p>\n<p>On a whim after a spicy dinner<\/p>\n<p>With guacamole chips and Margaritas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Opposed to the death penalty<\/p>\n<p>Committed to sustaining existing<\/p>\n<p>Life here in my home I must water<\/p>\n<p>Or commit homicide risking court<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houseplants are foster children I have purchased none of them Arriving hearing my apologies Unwanted gifts to be kept alive &nbsp; Holding that all things green Belong outdoors where God planted Them on one of those seven days My yard holds nothing premeditated &nbsp; Almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102392","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102397,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102392\/revisions\/102397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}