{"id":114001,"date":"2022-06-25T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114001"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:04:09","slug":"the-table-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-table-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Table of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the table of life<br \/>\nSet before us are corses in turn<br \/>\nWe trim away the loss with our knife<br \/>\nAnd eat spices that tend to burn<\/p>\n<p>We all have our forks in the road<br \/>\nAnd greedy fingers in others pies<br \/>\nWe scoop our dessert alamode<br \/>\nWhile we shew away the flies<\/p>\n<p>Choose your dish with thought<br \/>\nImportant to note the manner of food<br \/>\nCarried away not living as we ought<br \/>\nSo we nourish in the manner we should<\/p>\n<p>Thankful for the necessities we may have<br \/>\nAnd the hands that help us prepare<br \/>\nWithin affection finds a smile at last<br \/>\nAs we honor another by the forethought we share<\/p>\n<p>Who could forget our glass filled with drink<br \/>\nRemember to watch it closely and keep it near<br \/>\nIts easier to spill than you think<br \/>\nThen what would you use to toast good cheer?<\/p>\n<p>Be careful within this main course of life<br \/>\nFor not to dip in with a dirty spoon<br \/>\nAnd watchful of the days that cut like a knife<br \/>\nThat you be not dead inside while life still blooms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the table of life Set before us are corses in turn We trim away the loss with our knife And eat spices that tend to burn We all have our forks in the road And greedy fingers in others pies We scoop our dessert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114001","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\/4419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114216,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114001\/revisions\/114216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}