{"id":113334,"date":"2022-06-25T17:14:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113334"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:16:53","slug":"2022-poetry-marathon-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-poetry-marathon-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Poetry Marathon, Hour 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hour nine poem, based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompts-for-hour-nine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompt<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Whatever happened to Tang?<br \/>\nDo they still make Tang?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Supposedly<br \/>\nit was what the astronauts drank<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I believed it at the time<br \/>\nand wondered if they felt cheated<br \/>\nbecause they didn\u2019t have grape Tang yet<br \/>\nwhen they went to the moon<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I used to mix the orange and grape<br \/>\nall that sugary goodness<br \/>\nstraight out of the jar<br \/>\nlike a gobful of Flintstones vitamins<br \/>\non steroids<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(if I had known what steroids were at the time, that is)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But once Shasta came along<br \/>\nand Mr. Pibb<br \/>\nTang fell by the wayside<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sugar and carbonation?<br \/>\nYes, please!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Besides, Buzz Aldrin later said<br \/>\nthat \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/history\/second-man-moon-wants-you-know-tang-sucks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tang sucks<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That\u2019s good enough for me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>14:12, 25 June 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour nine poem, based on the prompt:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4880,1173,156,1163],"class_list":["post-113334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-9","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113334","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113580,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113334\/revisions\/113580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}