{"id":113403,"date":"2022-06-25T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113403"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:18:46","slug":"red-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/red-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was a young lad<br \/>\nSo innocent and a bit of a twit<br \/>\nI was between 4 or 5, maybe 7<br \/>\nWhen I really fell in the shit<\/p>\n<p>My mother was serving us dinner<br \/>\nBurgers, served with chips of course<br \/>\nWhen I, not paying attention<br \/>\nRashly reached for the sauce<\/p>\n<p>For what child of indeterminate age<br \/>\nWould want a ketchup-less burger<br \/>\nIt would be like having spaghetti without bolognaise<br \/>\nI caution, dear reader, no further<\/p>\n<p>For in my haste I had made the assumption<br \/>\nThat probably doesn&#8217;t need to be said<br \/>\nThat ketchup, so patently awesome<br \/>\nIs basically anything red<\/p>\n<p>So I made an obvious error<br \/>\nI grabbed the first red thing I saw<br \/>\nAnd then when I tasted my burger<br \/>\nMy forehead quickly hit the floor<\/p>\n<p>For I had never tasted Tabasco<br \/>\nThat Hot sauce from far off Latin shore<br \/>\nImagine my mothers surprise when she<br \/>\nHeard a high pitched scream no-one could ignore<\/p>\n<p>So that is the story dear reader<br \/>\nAnd hopefully realise my stance<br \/>\nOn the time I had a bottle of hot sauce<br \/>\nAnd burned a hole in the back of my pants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was a young lad So innocent and a bit of a twit I was between 4 or 5, maybe 7 When I really fell in the shit My mother was serving us dinner Burgers, served with chips of course When I,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113403","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113615,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113403\/revisions\/113615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}