{"id":132506,"date":"2023-09-02T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132506"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:16:48","slug":"hour-7-bakers-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-bakers-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7: Baker&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is safety in order<\/p>\n<p>And in knowing that if you follow the rules exactly<\/p>\n<p>You can make something special<\/p>\n<p>Both beautiful and rewarding<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baking is chemistry<\/p>\n<p>Each step leading to the next<\/p>\n<p>Perfection is possible<\/p>\n<p>If you follow each rule to the letter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could apply these rules<\/p>\n<p>To the world as a whole<\/p>\n<p>But social cues are ever changing<\/p>\n<p>And there is no recipe to follow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I find peace in exact minutes<\/p>\n<p>In reward for following the rules<\/p>\n<p>Careful measurements<\/p>\n<p>Lead to pleasing results<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People are not cakes<\/p>\n<p>Love is not frosting<\/p>\n<p>I cannot knead the world into the perfect shape<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is harder<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s the point<\/p>\n<p>If life was like baking<\/p>\n<p>There could be no mistakes<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t meant to be perfect, anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is safety in order And in knowing that if you follow the rules exactly You can make something special Both beautiful and rewarding &nbsp; Baking is chemistry Each step leading to the next Perfection is possible If you follow each rule to the letter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132506","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\/5302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132533,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132506\/revisions\/132533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}