{"id":47078,"date":"2019-06-22T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47078"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:37:00","slug":"their-seething-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/their-seething-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Their Seething Contentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a novel<br \/>\nabout<br \/>\na couple<br \/>\nwho won the lottery.<br \/>\nIt may never sell,<br \/>\nbut my mind plays with<br \/>\nthe concept<br \/>\nof <i>winning<\/i><br \/>\nand what that means<br \/>\neveryday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always at night<br \/>\nthat I think<br \/>\nwhat a waste,<br \/>\nwhat a cosmic joke<br \/>\ncould be played<br \/>\nby the universe<br \/>\nif the grocer<br \/>\nsold us a winning ticket<br \/>\nand on that same night,<br \/>\nsomeone&#8217;s hand grabbed<br \/>\nthe nuclear football<br \/>\nout of nothing more<br \/>\nthan being<br \/>\nmiffed<br \/>\nby Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>They always got better press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a novel about a couple who won the lottery. It may never sell, but my mind plays with the concept of winning and what that means everyday. It&#8217;s always at night that I think what a waste, what a cosmic joke could be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47078","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47230,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47078\/revisions\/47230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}