{"id":40870,"date":"2017-08-06T02:26:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40870"},"modified":"2017-08-06T02:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:26:29","slug":"tea-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/tea-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Without the fluids see<br \/>\nI get those migraines<br \/>\nBut I won\u2019t drink plain water<br \/>\nI tried and carried a jug for months<br \/>\nAlways still half full at twilight<\/p>\n<p>Way too many migraines<\/p>\n<p>Any one of my ten<br \/>\nClassrooms has tea stains on the carpet<br \/>\nI clutch this grown up sippy cup or<br \/>\nPut it down<br \/>\nKnock it over<br \/>\nLeave it precarious<br \/>\nMy mind is with the kids you see<\/p>\n<p>This district allows<br \/>\nPersonal appliances<br \/>\nSo my 1.5 liter water heater is<br \/>\nHandy<br \/>\nAnd the drawer full of teabags<br \/>\nA serious compromise from<br \/>\nHand picked organic loose leaf and infusers<br \/>\nBut see let\u2019s not be nuts about such things<br \/>\nAt least not at work<\/p>\n<p>After real tea in Japan<br \/>\nNo paper baggies and thread<br \/>\nDo the trick for my ritual<br \/>\nBlessing<\/p>\n<p>Though at school I admit<br \/>\nI can hold my tippy sippy in both hands<br \/>\nSneak in a quick prayer for patience or with luck<br \/>\nGratitude<br \/>\nQuaff a warm, soothing draft that<br \/>\nHides a bittersweet smile<\/p>\n<p>See I can\u2019t<br \/>\nKeep a straight face around the kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Without the fluids see I get those migraines But I won\u2019t drink plain water I tried and carried a jug for months Always still half full at twilight Way too many migraines Any one of my ten Classrooms has tea stains on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2228,680,2133,2316,2318,326,15,391,10,355,2116,2392,2658,401,2317,390,1084],"class_list":["post-40870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-2017-poetry-marathon","tag-laurel","tag-laurel-wilson","tag-marathon","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-tea","tag-teach","tag-teaching","tag-wilson","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870","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\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40886,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions\/40886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}