{"id":44923,"date":"2018-11-06T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=44923"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:49:38","slug":"charlatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/charlatan\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARLATAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every word from his lips was conjured from a fantasy he dreamed from behind the gate<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The American dream not so far from reach but out of touch<\/p>\n<p>Charming seemed to work and nice fit well in place of kindness<\/p>\n<p>People lapped it up like it was honey<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He hardly believed a word he said&#8230;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>mostly because he couldn\u2019t understand what any of it meant<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Borrowed phrases, stolen ideas tumbled out verbatim<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I\u2019d hear something I had said the other day<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taken out of context but delivered in exactly the same way<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most wouldn\u2019t even notice they\u2019d been had<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He thought he\u2019d landed on a ride but I don\u2019t play the carney games and rollercoasters don\u2019t suit me very well <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just because it\u2019s sweet don\u2019t mean it\u2019s honey<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I may feel rich but my wealth ain\u2019t in money<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nothing is ever what it seems<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every word from his lips was conjured from a fantasy he dreamed from behind the gate\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":44925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2767,2766,2769,2762],"class_list":["post-44923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-latepost","tag-nointernetinthemiddleofthenight","tag-noprpmpt","tag-unofficial-2018-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923","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\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44924,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44923\/revisions\/44924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}