{"id":115686,"date":"2022-06-25T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115686"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:42:10","slug":"mythos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/mythos\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fdthos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woman I knew once caught a talking frog<br \/>\nSo she said.<br \/>\nThe frog \u2013 leopard variety \u2013 large, green<br \/>\nNot only spoke<br \/>\nbut could read<br \/>\npreferring Studs Terkel<br \/>\nRhetorically asking the frog what would happen<br \/>\nif she kissed him<br \/>\nhe replied \u2018nothing\u2019<br \/>\nCuriosity piqued, she asked what good there was<br \/>\nin a talking frog<br \/>\nwho could read?<br \/>\nThe frog in response asked \u201cWhat good is a prince?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cGood point.\u201d<br \/>\nreplied my friend<br \/>\n\u201cThat \u2018kiss me and I turn into a prince\u2019 stuff in bullshit\u201d<br \/>\nSaid the frog<br \/>\n\u201cReally?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFrogs\u201d he explained, \u201dAre far more egalitarian, mostly.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMostly 9-to-5\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFrogs?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes\u201d he told her, \u201cThe royalty crap is mostly myth.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMostly?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMostly. And there is no moral to my story, either.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Really?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes. Frogs generally prefer discussing work ethic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woman I knew once caught a talking frog So she said. The frog \u2013 leopard variety \u2013 large, green Not only spoke but could read preferring Studs Terkel Rhetorically asking the frog what would happen if she kissed him he replied \u2018nothing\u2019 Curiosity piqued,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[5246,5281],"class_list":["post-115686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2022hour10","tag-2022prompt-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115686","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115686\/revisions\/118572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}