{"id":24871,"date":"2016-08-13T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24871"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:55:11","slug":"an-extras-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/an-extras-life\/","title":{"rendered":"An Extra&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know who I am.<\/p>\n<p>I see it in your face.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I shop at the grocery store<br \/>\njust like &#8220;regular folk,&#8221;<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll fill my own gas tank, too,<br \/>\nif you want to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Bring your camera.<\/p>\n<p>Did I attend Cannes? <\/p>\n<p>No, but, I sent a cast of my ass,<br \/>\nwhich is the only part of me<br \/>\nthat makes it into most of <em>my<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <em>my<\/em>. If a woman with a six-figure salary can claim<br \/>\nmy ass is hers,<br \/>\nthen I can claim her star vehicle is <em>my<\/em> movie.<\/p>\n<p>Did we get along?<br \/>\nWhat is this?<br \/>\nI never met the, excuse me, talent.<\/p>\n<p>I was usually ushered in to film<br \/>\nthe scene her contract stipulated<br \/>\nshe wouldn&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>Fame or no,<br \/>\nI got to stipulate<br \/>\nthat inessential crew were barred<br \/>\nduring my body cameo.<\/p>\n<p>Pissed her off, I heard.<\/p>\n<p>I make a good living, thank you.<br \/>\nThat torso in the Tom Ford promo?<\/p>\n<p>You bet it&#8217;s not Miss-The-World-Loves-Me.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ll excuse me,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a yoga cycle class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know who I am. I see it in your face. Yes, I shop at the grocery store just like &#8220;regular folk,&#8221; and I&#8217;ll fill my own gas tank, too, if you want to watch. Bring your camera. Did I attend Cannes? No, but, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24898,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions\/24898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}