{"id":17595,"date":"2016-08-13T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17595"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:51:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:51:35","slug":"elitist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/elitist\/","title":{"rendered":"Elitist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark purple and red,<\/p>\n<p>Island sunset in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth and thin-skinned.<\/p>\n<p>Heirloom. Royalty. Expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Nestled between creamy mozzarella and bright green sweet basil,<\/p>\n<p>Drizzled with thick, sweet balsamic vinegar.<\/p>\n<p>Salad, appetizer or entr\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Verde charred and black.<\/p>\n<p>Pity poor Hatch.<\/p>\n<p>Common and cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Socialist vegetable for the masses.<\/p>\n<p>Stuffed in peasant patties of tasteless corn and flour.<\/p>\n<p>Afterthought, poured over fried chips.<\/p>\n<p>Never dessert.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>All vegetables are equal, but some vegetables are more equal than others\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some vegetables are fruits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks George Orwell)<\/p>\n<p>By Sue Storts<\/p>\n<p>08\/13\/2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark purple and red, Island sunset in the garden. Smooth and thin-skinned. Heirloom. Royalty. Expensive. Nestled between creamy mozzarella and bright green sweet basil, Drizzled with thick, sweet balsamic vinegar. Salad, appetizer or entr\u00e9e. &nbsp; Verde charred and black. Pity poor Hatch. Common and cheap&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18097,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions\/18097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}