{"id":129323,"date":"2023-09-02T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129323"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:59:10","slug":"american-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/american-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"American helper (Prompt 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metaphorically speaking<br \/>\nshe is a couch potato with<br \/>\na heart of gold<br \/>\nanswering siren song of<br \/>\nheart-tugging<br \/>\ntear-jerking<br \/>\ninfomercial paeans to<br \/>\nstarving children<br \/>\nabandoned pets<br \/>\nendangered land<br \/>\nforking over credit card<br \/>\naccess with every<br \/>\nchannel change<br \/>\nracking up enough points<br \/>\nto travel the world<br \/>\ntimes over<br \/>\nyet never leaving<br \/>\nher living room<br \/>\ntherein proving irony<br \/>\nmost always stranger<br \/>\nthan fiction<br \/>\neven when the facts<br \/>\ndon\u2019t get in the way<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2023<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metaphorically speaking she is a couch potato with a heart of gold answering siren song of heart-tugging tear-jerking infomercial paeans to starving children abandoned pets endangered land forking over credit card access with every channel change racking up enough points to travel the world times&#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":[5772,5765,5878],"class_list":["post-129323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023prompt3-2023hour3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129323","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=129323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143225,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129323\/revisions\/143225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}