{"id":19825,"date":"2016-08-13T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19825"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:39:04","slug":"breakfast-with-curmudgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/breakfast-with-curmudgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast with Curmudgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>That guy got our table. I hate siting in the middle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Trade places with me. I don\u2019t want to sit with my back to the door.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Great! Right next to the family with the baby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s too loud in here. I hate it when all those women come in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>See that guy? He insisted on holding the door open for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s a f*ckin\u2019 \u00a0Republican.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His wife looks like she just ate a lemon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I guess I\u2019ll have the usual. I don\u2019t want to scare my stomach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why do they put News on the TV? Why do you watch that crap? It\u2019ll rot your brain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the Sports Channel. Who cares about golf? Baseball\u2019s the only game worth watching.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Food\u2019s here. \u00a0Looks good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The yolk\u2019s too runny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sh*t! I dropped it on my clean shirt. I just put it on this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hear that girl\u2019s voice at the table behind you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What do they call that, fry? Vocal fry? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Her voice is fried better than these eggs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I like the corned beef hash better at the other place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The coffee\u2019s decent here, though.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You finished?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ll pay the bill. You start the get-away car.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I left the tip on the table.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Thanks. Enjoyed it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take care. See you next week. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Sue Storts<\/p>\n<p>08\/13\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That guy got our table. I hate siting in the middle. Trade places with me. I don\u2019t want to sit with my back to the door. \u00a0 Great! Right next to the family with the baby. It\u2019s too loud in here. I hate it when&#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-19825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825","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=19825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19825\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}