{"id":131854,"date":"2023-09-02T14:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131854"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:31:27","slug":"5-the-mystery-of-whos-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/5-the-mystery-of-whos-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 The Mystery of Who&#8217;s to Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s to Blame?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things did not go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Do we blame the personal assistant<\/p>\n<p>Who arranged the business dinner at 1804 C Street?<\/p>\n<p>Or the Uber driver<\/p>\n<p>Who assumed it was C Street NW not NE?<\/p>\n<p>Or the executive who didn\u2019t specify<\/p>\n<p>If he wanted Indian food or French cuisine?<\/p>\n<p>Or the lawyer who insisted<\/p>\n<p>He knew \u00a0where and when and what they should eat?<\/p>\n<p>Or the delivery man who double-parked his van that blocked C Street<\/p>\n<p>And backed up traffic for half an hour?<\/p>\n<p>Or the nanny<\/p>\n<p>Who couldn\u2019t pick up the children from school?<\/p>\n<p>Or the principal<\/p>\n<p>Who issued a detention to one of the children for name-calling?<\/p>\n<p>Or the weatherman<\/p>\n<p>Who forecast 5\u201d of snow and it happened?<\/p>\n<p>Or the minister<\/p>\n<p>Who had encouraged families to slow down?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blame is a game that nobody-wins.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s to Blame? &nbsp; Things did not go as planned. Do we blame the personal assistant Who arranged the business dinner at 1804 C Street? Or the Uber driver Who assumed it was C Street NW not NE? Or the executive who didn\u2019t specify If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131854","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131873,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131854\/revisions\/131873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}