{"id":102455,"date":"2021-06-27T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102455"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:52:09","slug":"hour-twenty-three-cheese-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-twenty-three-cheese-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-Three, Cheese Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Enormous Cheese, or, The Separation of Church and State<\/p>\n<p>The separation of church and state in American politics<br \/>\nhas long been held to be a constitutionally given right,<br \/>\nbut in fact it would not exist and be articulated<br \/>\nwere it not for an enormous, six foot in diameter cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts Baptists created the cheese<br \/>\nfrom the milk of 900 cows.<br \/>\nThey sent it to newly elected President Thomas Jefferson,<br \/>\nwho shared it with several hundred friends.<\/p>\n<p>His gratefulness for the gift was such that he immediately<br \/>\npenned a letter of thanks to its creators<br \/>\nemphasizing how free worship among free people could not exist<br \/>\nwere it not for the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, the Baptists were careful to note that the cheese<br \/>\nwas created &#8220;without a single slave to assist&#8221; for a duly<br \/>\nelected president by free citizens of a free land, which<br \/>\ngiven that slave born descendants of Jefferson exist today,<br \/>\nwas quite something for those Massachusetts Baptists to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Enormous Cheese, or, The Separation of Church and State The separation of church and state in American politics has long been held to be a constitutionally given right, but in fact it would not exist and be articulated were it not for an enormous,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102455","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102594,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102455\/revisions\/102594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}