{"id":25668,"date":"2016-08-13T23:41:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25668"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:41:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:41:20","slug":"15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/15-2\/","title":{"rendered":"15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You Say the Heart is a Muscle<\/p>\n<p>But I say it\u2019s an eggplant, ready to soak up whatever<br \/>\nflavor you put it in, adding a chewiness necessary<br \/>\nfor a good vegetarian dish. You say the heart is a jackfruit<br \/>\ndifficult to prepare, but a delight if you get it right. I say<br \/>\nthe heart is a spider bite that turns into a pus bubble<br \/>\nyou have to scratch so it becomes a scab and the itching<br \/>\nstops. You say no, the heart is a chile ready for roasting<br \/>\nso the skin slips off and the meat is left to add a healthy<br \/>\nspiciness. I say the heart is a cigarette, a pleasure to inhale<br \/>\nbut leaves a burn in the chest. You say the heart is a muscle<br \/>\nit\u2019s made to recycle everything you touch because the blood<br \/>\nis right there, just below the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Say the Heart is a Muscle But I say it\u2019s an eggplant, ready to soak up whatever flavor you put it in, adding a chewiness necessary for a good vegetarian dish. You say the heart is a jackfruit difficult to prepare, but a delight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25988,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions\/25988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}