{"id":27051,"date":"2016-08-14T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27051"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:16:09","slug":"thicker-than-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/thicker-than-water\/","title":{"rendered":"thicker than water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>Pardon me!\u201d<\/strong> he yelled into the phone. The guards looked on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimmy! Cool it. Of course, I will. We\u2019re blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>How are you<\/strong> going to do it? When are you going to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry to <strong>have a nice day<\/strong>, okay? I got you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he did. <\/p>\n<p>Jimmy, the felon, and Henry, the governor, were united again.<br \/>\nAll the kin were at the mansion to <strong>welcome home<\/strong> the fallen sibling.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, at the head of the table, raised his glass. \u201cYou\u2019ve got something to thank me for, don\u2019t you brother?\u201d He winked at Jimmy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Thank you<\/strong> for what? You got me into this mess. If you hadn\u2019t.. \u201c<br \/>\nHenry cut in, \u201cYou all will have to <strong>excuse me<\/strong> and my dear brother here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Out on the veranda, the brothers talked it over.<br \/>\nHenry smoothed out his ego. Jimmy unrumpled his pride.<\/p>\n<p>The were brothers after all. Partners in crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPardon me!\u201d he yelled into the phone. The guards looked on. \u201cJimmy! Cool it. Of course, I will. We\u2019re blood.\u201d \u201cHow are you going to do it? When are you going to do it?\u201d \u201cTry to have a nice day, okay? I got you.\u201d And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1997],"class_list":["post-27051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051","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\/817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27061,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27051\/revisions\/27061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}