{"id":41871,"date":"2017-08-06T06:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41871"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:17:39","slug":"practice-makes-perfect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/practice-makes-perfect-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice makes perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft\">I&#8217;m the best student in the school,<br \/>\nthe smartest student in the history of students,<br \/>\nI can talk my way into an A<br \/>\nbefore you can eat your lunch.<br \/>\nYou think you have an after school job?<br \/>\nMy job is the greatest after school job<br \/>\never, driving with my dad to the slums<br \/>\nand evicting losers.<br \/>\nYou wish you had my job.<br \/>\nYou, fight me? I can beat you with<br \/>\none hand. One finger. My pinkie finger.<br \/>\nI have a strategy to keep me<br \/>\nfrom ever losing, but I won&#8217;t tell you<br \/>\ncause if I did, you&#8217;d know what<br \/>\nI intended to do.<br \/>\nTrust me, I never lose.<br \/>\nIf I can&#8217;t beat you I can<br \/>\ntalk you into a deal to<br \/>\nsave my skin. But I can beat you.<\/div>\n<p class=\"alignright\">I&#8217;m the best negotiator to ever hold office.<br \/>\nI will make the best deals in the history of deals.<br \/>\nI can talk China into moving jobs here<br \/>\nbefore you can draw up a contract.<br \/>\nThe Presidents who took office before me<br \/>\nwill wish they could have been as good<br \/>\na President as I&#8217;ll be President.<br \/>\nYou want to fire your missiles at us?<br \/>\nI have a strategy to disarm your missiles<br \/>\nbefore they leave the launch pad,<br \/>\nbut I won&#8217;t tell you because I want you<br \/>\nworried about what I&#8217;ll do next.<br \/>\nBesides, why would you fire at us.<br \/>\nI can make you a deal so good<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll want to become the 51st state.<br \/>\nAnd if you won&#8217;t take the deal,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll wipe you off the map.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Prompt 21<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the best student in the school, the smartest student in the history of students, I can talk my way into an A before you can eat your lunch. You think you have an after school job? My job is the greatest after school job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[2228,2686,15,10,839,2695,2008],"class_list":["post-41871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-exaggeration","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-politics","tag-practice","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871","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\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42005,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871\/revisions\/42005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}