{"id":113965,"date":"2022-06-25T17:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113965"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:59:41","slug":"2022-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 &#8211; hour 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I laugh uproariously at the amusing song<\/p>\n<p>by Cheryl Wheeler, about the cruise ship<\/p>\n<p>that got stranded out at sea, and<\/p>\n<p>all they had to eat for a couple of weeks<\/p>\n<p>was pop tarts and spam, airlifted from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>No one, from the most accomplished chef in a French cafe,<\/p>\n<p>to the short-order cook in the greasy spoon, could make<\/p>\n<p>a fine meal out of those ingredients. Not enough bechemel<\/p>\n<p>sauce in all of France to dress up that awful can-shaped<\/p>\n<p>substance. Yet when we were young, starving on a<\/p>\n<p>cold-water farm in the Ozarks, spam was the great luxury.<\/p>\n<p>We all waited, stair steps from four to twenty, eager for our slice,<\/p>\n<p>browned around the edges from the skillet, and delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPAM I laugh uproariously at the amusing song by Cheryl Wheeler, about the cruise ship that got stranded out at sea, and all they had to eat for a couple of weeks was pop tarts and spam, airlifted from the mainland. No one, from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113965","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114153,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113965\/revisions\/114153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}