{"id":28114,"date":"2016-08-14T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28114"},"modified":"2016-08-14T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:20:28","slug":"say-what-you-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/say-what-you-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What You Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollow phrases from empty faces<br \/>\nRobotic repetitions rendered meaningless<br \/>\nSome used to be polite, but now they are just trite<\/p>\n<p>Why is \u201cWelcome home\u201d usually followed by a complaint or fight?<br \/>\nOr is it just something that happened to be on a cute doormat?<\/p>\n<p>Are your \u201cThank you\u201d statements truly meaningful?<br \/>\nor merely social obligation?<\/p>\n<p>When I hear \u201cExcuse me\u201d or \u201cPardon me\u201d I realize instantaneously,<br \/>\nsomeone is eager to push their way through and shove me aside.<\/p>\n<p>How very rude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollow phrases from empty faces Robotic repetitions rendered meaningless Some used to be polite, but now they are just trite Why is \u201cWelcome home\u201d usually followed by a complaint or fight? Or is it just something that happened to be on a cute doormat? Are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-28114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28270,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114\/revisions\/28270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}