{"id":11723,"date":"2015-06-13T22:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11723"},"modified":"2015-06-13T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:30:03","slug":"perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of what &#8220;perfection&#8221; means to me, it&#8217;s always the same image;<\/p>\n<p>A circle of dough, cooked just enough for its crust to sing;<\/p>\n<p>A layer of sauce, tart enough to be interesting, but mild enough not to burn;<\/p>\n<p>A layer of cheese that flows between the crust walls as it should&#8211;but that few wizards outside of New York City seem to know how to manifest;<\/p>\n<p>Pepperoni made from pork and beef,\u00a0<em>not<\/em> &#8220;pork plus don&#8217;t ask&#8221;, scattered lovingly over the cheese blanket;<\/p>\n<p>This is pizza;<\/p>\n<p>It fills the belly and nourishes the soul;<\/p>\n<p>Like love, when pizza is at the top of its game, there are few sweeter pleasures;<\/p>\n<p>When it isn&#8217;t, there are few greater disappointments;<\/p>\n<p>But tonight my thoughts are not on philosophy, but the matter at and in hand;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mangia!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of what &#8220;perfection&#8221; means to me, it&#8217;s always the same image; A circle of dough, cooked just enough for its crust to sing; A layer of sauce, tart enough to be interesting, but mild enough not to burn; A layer of cheese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}