{"id":51421,"date":"2019-06-22T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51421"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:14:05","slug":"green-eggs-ham-and-mice-with-cookies-and-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/green-eggs-ham-and-mice-with-cookies-and-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Eggs, Ham and Mice with Cookies and Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name isn’t Sam.<\/p>\n

I won’t pester you to eat<\/p>\n

Foods that have somehow managed to survive years beyond their shelf life.<\/p>\n

I won’t ask you to do silly things like give mice cookies or milk in glasses.<\/p>\n

Instead, I’ll invite you to come spend days in the sun<\/p>\n

A day with me and you’ll understand the pleasantness of sharing farmer’s tans.<\/p>\n

I won’t beg you to go on trips all over,<\/p>\n

Instead, I’ll invite you to shovel stalls filled with poo<\/p>\n

And I’ll show you the time you ever had-<\/p>\n

With a horse under your ass.<\/p>\n

Yep, hang with me and you will see-<\/p>\n

This is life as it’s meant to be-<\/p>\n

And it’s better than any kid’s story could possibly be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name isn’t Sam. I won’t pester you to eat Foods that have somehow managed to survive years beyond their shelf life. I won’t ask you to do silly things like give mice cookies or milk in glasses. Instead, I’ll invite you to come spend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,12,1136,441,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51421","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\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51527,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51421\/revisions\/51527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}