{"id":40095,"date":"2017-08-06T00:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40095"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:24:59","slug":"mosquito-v-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/mosquito-v-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito v. food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mosquito went on trial,<br \/>\nAccused of being a pest<br \/>\nAnd a nuisance<br \/>\nAnd a vagrant<br \/>\nPreying on human blood.<br \/>\nThe plaintiff made opening arguments:<br \/>\n&#8220;Your honour,&#8221; they opened,<br \/>\n&#8220;The defendant has taken numerous blood samples from my client without their consent.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s more, the purpose and value of their existence is questionable.<br \/>\nIt is only right, your honour, that they pay in equal measure<br \/>\nFor the quantity consumed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge considered these arguments.<br \/>\n&#8220;And now, the defense will present its counter-arguments.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd the mosquito, being a mosquito, said nothing.<br \/>\nAnd, being a mosquito, did not know it had to bring representation.<br \/>\nIt was not even sure where it was.<br \/>\n&#8220;Very well, then,&#8221; the judge said, \u00a0glaring judgmentally at the defendant.<br \/>\nThe plaintiff crossed the floor,<br \/>\nAnd squashed the mosquito flat as a pancake.<br \/>\n&#8220;Court dismissed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mosquito went on trial, Accused of being a pest And a nuisance And a vagrant Preying on human blood. The plaintiff made opening arguments: &#8220;Your honour,&#8221; they opened, &#8220;The defendant has taken numerous blood samples from my client without their consent. What&#8217;s more, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095","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\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40163,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions\/40163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}