{"id":34885,"date":"2017-08-05T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34885"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:09:42","slug":"lemon-lime-still-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/lemon-lime-still-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Lime Still Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lemons in the still life were beckoning me,<\/p>\n

so shiny, so sour and full of a certain je ne sais quoi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The limes were meh<\/em>, so-so.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The lemons felt justified I think.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure why.<\/p>\n

Perhaps they felt stronger than the limes,<\/p>\n

whose green skin was slowly fading in the bright sunlight from the window.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure why fruit should feel so self-righteous.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the lemons feel they are more useful than the other fruits<\/p>\n

lounging in their exotic purples and reds<\/p>\n

in their more perfect roundedness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Perhaps it is the pressure to ripen in too short a time,<\/p>\n

I really don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I guess the fruit doesn\u2019t get to choose which side of the bowl it is arranged in,<\/p>\n

or have any say at all about\u00a0the talents of the painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lemons in the still life were beckoning me, so shiny, so sour and full of a certain je ne sais quoi. The limes were meh, so-so.   The lemons felt justified I think. I\u2019m not sure why. Perhaps they felt stronger than the limes,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885","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\/1078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35260,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885\/revisions\/35260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}