{"id":139502,"date":"2023-09-03T00:59:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139502"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:54:27","slug":"screw-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/screw-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw it! (Prompt 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best advice I was ever given<br \/>\nwas to throw away<br \/>\nany printed instructions<\/p>\n<p>Just wing it<br \/>\nI was told; figure it out<br \/>\ntrust your instincts, and your guts<\/p>\n<p>The best advice I was ever given<br \/>\nhas served me well<br \/>\nbeing as life is not <\/p>\n<p>never has been a<br \/>\nslot A into tab B<br \/>\nsort of endeavor \u2013 strictly D-I-Y <\/p>\n<p>Life much more IKEA than Louis XVI<br \/>\neven when many of<br \/>\nthe parts are<br \/>\nmissing you learn<br \/>\nmore by improvising than conforming<\/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>The best advice I was ever given was to throw away any printed instructions Just wing it I was told; figure it out trust your instincts, and your guts The best advice I was ever given has served me well being as life is not&#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":[5765,6260,6259],"class_list":["post-139502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023prompt16","tag-2023hour16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139502","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=139502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143167,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139502\/revisions\/143167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}