{"id":118282,"date":"2022-06-26T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118282"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:35:14","slug":"prompt-16-hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-16-hypocrites\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 16, Hypocrites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the fires had been extinguished<br \/>\nand we had left the books required<br \/>\nto teach the flock.<br \/>\nWe had dinner in a haze<br \/>\nbut asked the crustaceans<br \/>\nfor forgiveness before<br \/>\npouring butter<br \/>\nover their boiled shells<br \/>\nand the meat<br \/>\nbefore stabbing<br \/>\nat our plates.<\/p>\n<p>Over coffee and dessert,<br \/>\nwe begged mercy<br \/>\nfor the labor<br \/>\nrequired to harvest the wheat,<br \/>\nto grown and pluck the beans,<br \/>\nto smelt the silver for the dinnerware,<br \/>\nand the women to bear the laborers<br \/>\nwho served our courses.<\/p>\n<p>Who were we but God-fearing Patriots?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the fires had been extinguished and we had left the books required to teach the flock. We had dinner in a haze but asked the crustaceans for forgiveness before pouring butter over their boiled shells and the meat before stabbing at our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118282","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118503,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118282\/revisions\/118503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}