{"id":45954,"date":"2019-06-21T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=45954"},"modified":"2019-06-22T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T04:54:19","slug":"ode-to-a-certain-duchess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ode-to-a-certain-duchess\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Certain Duchess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A girl certainly must kiss a lot of frogs<br \/>\nTo land a wealthy Englishman, a prince<br \/>\nTo innumerable soirees she must trapse<br \/>\nTo find a trifle peculating recompense.<br \/>\nSo come evening, did Ms. Markle stray<br \/>\nAt SoHo House, ghosting celebs away.<br \/>\nDining on avocado toast and tomatoes.<br \/>\nSearching\u00a0 a source of bespoke clothes.<br \/>\nSo she could buy that Burberry raincoat,<br \/>\nJimmy Choo shoes, and Givenchy gowns<br \/>\nAnd, of course, would she choose to gloat<br \/>\nLooking for fun with a girl in London town.<br \/>\nFound\u00a0 he who could float a yacht girl\u2019s boat.<br \/>\nThough twice wed, was past the sell-by date.<br \/>\nAs jars thrown away from the pantry shelf,<br \/>\nFor conceiving children would be too late.<br \/>\nNow, it\u2019s a mystery why this fatal attraction.<br \/>\nIs driving daily tabloid readers to distraction.<br \/>\nWhen she \u2018s likely to receive Henry\u2019s elbow<br \/>\nBut then\u00a0 she\u2019s yet to receive HMS&#8217;s memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A girl certainly must kiss a lot of frogs To land a wealthy Englishman, a prince To innumerable soirees she must trapse To find a trifle peculating recompense. So come evening, did Ms. Markle stray At SoHo House, ghosting celebs away. Dining on avocado&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45987,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954\/revisions\/45987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}