The Great Wall of Chocolate,<\/p>\n
not far from ‘natural wonder’ status,<\/p>\n
resides in my home,<\/p>\n
the making of a six-year-old.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When my colleagues found out,<\/p>\n
they insisted I invited them home,<\/p>\n
and when I declined them\u00a0politely<\/em>,<\/p>\n they invited themselves over anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is this Great Wall? you ask,<\/p>\n well, it happened that my daughter,<\/p>\n had a curious habit of sneaking chocolate,<\/p>\n from the refrigerator as soon as she learnt to walk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course I didn’t find out until,<\/p>\n one day the babysitter called at work,<\/p>\n and reported that there was a “huge monstrous chocolate maze”<\/p>\n in my basement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fearing for the mentality of my babysitter,<\/p>\n and the safety of my daughter,<\/p>\n I rushed over to be greeted by a cunning daughter,<\/p>\n and a slightly dazed baby sitter, who insisted I terminate her services.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course, my daughter is all grown up,<\/p>\n and in college now, but the tale of the Great Wall of Chocolate,<\/p>\n (which my daughter says was built by a tribe of aliens as a religious monument),<\/p>\n still lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Great Wall of Chocolate, not far from ‘natural wonder’ status, resides in my home, the making of a six-year-old. When my colleagues found out, they insisted I invited them home, and when I declined them\u00a0politely, they invited themselves over anyway. What is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655","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\/770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28836,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions\/28836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}