{"id":28321,"date":"2016-08-14T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28321"},"modified":"2016-08-14T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:51:26","slug":"at-the-diner-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/at-the-diner-22\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Diner &#8211; #22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I eat alone<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I write notes<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I read<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I do nothing<\/p>\n<p>observe other diners<\/p>\n<p>polite to the server<\/p>\n<p>do not leave large tip<\/p>\n<p>even though I used to be a waitress.<\/p>\n<p>for nine year I toiled in a restaurant<\/p>\n<p>Howard Johnson&#8217;s on East forty-second Street,<\/p>\n<p>I was in a union,<\/p>\n<p>once was the shop steward.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I toil over words,<\/p>\n<p>the poet as a young waitress.<\/p>\n<p>the old woman as a young poet.<\/p>\n<p>I forget why I do this<\/p>\n<p>just a diner in in the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28443\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nighthawks-artist_Edward-Hopper1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"nighthawks-artist_Edward-Hopper[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nighthawks-artist_Edward-Hopper1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nighthawks-artist_Edward-Hopper1.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I eat alone sometimes I write notes sometimes I read sometimes I do nothing observe other diners polite to the server do not leave large tip even though I used to be a waitress. for nine year I toiled in a restaurant Howard Johnson&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28448,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321\/revisions\/28448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}