{"id":27972,"date":"2016-08-14T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27972"},"modified":"2016-08-14T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:36:22","slug":"johnnys-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/johnnys-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny&#8217;s Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny\u2019s Reef<\/p>\n<p>Frannie Z<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s where City Island<\/p>\n<p>meets the Sound.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1950,<\/p>\n<p>in a grand though illicit tradition,<\/p>\n<p>after gobbling fresh fish and<\/p>\n<p>fries,<\/p>\n<p>people salute the seagulls<\/p>\n<p>with not-quite empty<\/p>\n<p>paper dishes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some make bets<\/p>\n<p>on how long<\/p>\n<p>It will take.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some wager<\/p>\n<p>on how many.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But those who claim a real sporting instinct,<\/p>\n<p>also bet<\/p>\n<p>On whether they\u2019ll gulp the slaw.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cats will clean up the rest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny\u2019s Reef Frannie Z &nbsp; It\u2019s where City Island meets the Sound. Since 1950, in a grand though illicit tradition, after gobbling fresh fish and fries, people salute the seagulls with not-quite empty paper dishes. &nbsp; Some make bets on how long It will take&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28027,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972\/revisions\/28027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}