{"id":136150,"date":"2023-09-02T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136150"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:38:18","slug":"eleven-epicured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/eleven-epicured\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven:  Epicured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Epicured<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>An ode to pepperoni<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Eleven<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If perfection existed as a production of the sum of human genius<br \/>\nIt would be the delight before me now<br \/>\nSlicings of superior joy<br \/>\nA mastery in form and function that elevates all it touches<br \/>\nCured savagery spiced and served like tiny offerings for the holiness of our mouths<\/p>\n<p>Were we as a species ever so godlike in our ability to create<br \/>\nThat we could conceive of such perfection writ small<br \/>\nA triumph in form and color and flavor such as the mastery of flesh<br \/>\nA sacred act of cleansing and preservation in purification<br \/>\nGilded scarlet and anointed in oils<br \/>\nTo be venerated thusly, or in great ceremony,<br \/>\nKissed in the burning heart of our desires<br \/>\nAbove the bubbling beds of gluttony,<br \/>\nBorn of heat and pressure milked from each worshipful act<br \/>\nAs to station such civility.<\/p>\n<p>And thus, as gods, we feast divine<br \/>\nTo serve such communion to community<br \/>\nFor never again could there stand such a monument to voracity<br \/>\nThat our appetites be slaked in the exaltation of such a hunger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-135945 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-768x960-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-768x960-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tim-foster-BnwRf_m3EIg-unsplash-768x960-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epicured An ode to pepperoni Eleven If perfection existed as a production of the sum of human genius It would be the delight before me now Slicings of superior joy A mastery in form and function that elevates all it touches Cured savagery spiced and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3239,"featured_media":135945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136150","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\/3239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136181,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136150\/revisions\/136181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}