{"id":122522,"date":"2022-06-26T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122522"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:16:21","slug":"the-grapes-of-wrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-grapes-of-wrath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grapes of Wrath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He must not like books,<br \/>\nbut he thinks he likes me.<br \/>\nStrange fool that he is.<\/p>\n<p>Or was&#8230; Really?<br \/>\nIs that still the reason<br \/>\nfor all this gang stalking?<\/p>\n<p>All upset after 40 years<br \/>\nbecause I refused to<br \/>\nwave in your parade?<\/p>\n<p>Did Harry come to Megan<br \/>\nand say \u201cWe\u2019re getting married.\u201d<br \/>\none day, just out of the blue?<\/p>\n<p>Prince of nothing! How dare you impose<br \/>\nyour son of a hag everyone knows<br \/>\nupon my life and my world!<\/p>\n<p>Your right to the pursuit of happiness<br \/>\nis NOT actually, on any level<br \/>\nmeant to allow your pursuit of me.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Joy, yes, a word<br \/>\nsimilar to happiness&#8230;<br \/>\nSo, did the AG say it was OK?<\/p>\n<p>Does it exist in some federal policy<br \/>\nsomewhere in the banal depths<br \/>\nof that haint white house?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it does. Maybe I was woven<br \/>\ninto the pork fat of some<br \/>\nwell fettered bill.<\/p>\n<p>You people! You pests!<br \/>\nYou infantile brats without a shred<br \/>\nof sanity! Just couldn\u2019t let me be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He must not like books, but he thinks he likes me. Strange fool that he is. Or was&#8230; Really? Is that still the reason for all this gang stalking? All upset after 40 years because I refused to wave in your parade? Did Harry come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[839],"class_list":["post-122522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122522","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122533,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122522\/revisions\/122533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}