{"id":3190,"date":"2014-08-23T20:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2014-08-23T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:29:54","slug":"grey-matter-gluttony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/grey-matter-gluttony\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Matter Gluttony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunger.<br \/>\nVociferously voracious,<br \/>\nHer brain hunts prey.<\/p>\n<p>Cerebral cortex,<br \/>\ncrouched at the ready,<br \/>\na predator of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Big game hunter,<br \/>\nit searches<br \/>\nfor sustenance.<\/p>\n<p>Ever questing<br \/>\nthe answers to questions,<br \/>\nto satisfy the emptiness.<\/p>\n<p>Addicted to the carbs<br \/>\nof intellect,<br \/>\nSatisfying, but somehow short.<\/p>\n<p>Give me more.<br \/>\nThe whys, the wherefores,<br \/>\nThe whats and whens.<\/p>\n<p>Fill me with wonder,<br \/>\nWheels turning feverishly,<br \/>\nTo still the pangs of perception.<\/p>\n<p>Never full,<br \/>\nRestlessly ruminating&#8230;<br \/>\nThe carnivore of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping against hope,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s food source,<br \/>\nNever goes the way of the DODO.<\/p>\n<p>Extinct. No More.<br \/>\nBereft of the Benefit,<br \/>\nTo die of starvation.<\/p>\n<p>With no food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>( Whew , made it.. though I can&#8217;t say honestly that most were my best work, and I included a couple I did earlier so they were part of the group&#8230;Good Luck to those doing the whole 24 hrs..12 was hard and exhausting enough..lol..thanks for this opportunity to challenge myself )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunger. Vociferously voracious, Her brain hunts prey. Cerebral cortex, crouched at the ready, a predator of thought. Big game hunter, it searches for sustenance. Ever questing the answers to questions, to satisfy the emptiness. Addicted to the carbs of intellect, Satisfying, but somehow short. Give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}