{"id":134726,"date":"2023-09-02T18:56:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134726"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:56:57","slug":"gumball-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/gumball-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumball Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the gumball machine belonged to my sis.<\/p>\n<p>i wanted it, but more than this<\/p>\n<p>i wanted what was in it,<\/p>\n<p>she never let me have.<\/p>\n<p>one night i took the machine<\/p>\n<p>and smilingly said<\/p>\n<p>you can have it back when i&#8217;m dead.<\/p>\n<p>she got that look in her eye<\/p>\n<p>you know the one<\/p>\n<p>and i felt some regret<\/p>\n<p>but the deed was done.<\/p>\n<p>i smiled again<\/p>\n<p>and began to run<\/p>\n<p>straight to the shed.<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t know what was in my head<\/p>\n<p>but she cornered me there<\/p>\n<p>and took the machine,<\/p>\n<p>opened it up\u00a0and said<\/p>\n<p>lets share.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the gumball machine belonged to my sis. i wanted it, but more than this i wanted what was in it, she never let me have. one night i took the machine and smilingly said you can have it back when i&#8217;m dead. she got that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134726","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\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135528,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134726\/revisions\/135528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}