{"id":4404,"date":"2014-08-24T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2014-08-24T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:37:44","slug":"4404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/4404\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo. 16: Esplanade\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About the Esplanade,<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s premier arts centre,<\/p>\n<p>Opinions are divided.<\/p>\n<p>For seen from above,<\/p>\n<p>It does resemble a giant housefly at rest,<\/p>\n<p>With huge eyes open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Curiously though,<\/p>\n<p>At ground level,<\/p>\n<p>With steel slats all over the glass roof,<\/p>\n<p>A seeming afterthought,<\/p>\n<p>Against the blazing tropical sun,<\/p>\n<p>It looks more like a durian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The popular nickname is certainly apt,<\/p>\n<p>For this \u201cKing of Fruits\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>Succulent though its flesh may be,<\/p>\n<p>Akin to a chemical WMD,<\/p>\n<p>Its notoriously pungent aroma,<\/p>\n<p>Aptly describes some of what it passes off as culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Esplanade, The country\u2019s premier arts centre, Opinions are divided. For seen from above, It does resemble a giant housefly at rest, With huge eyes open. &nbsp; Curiously though, At ground level, With steel slats all over the glass roof, A seeming afterthought, Against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}