{"id":56541,"date":"2019-06-23T05:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56541"},"modified":"2019-06-30T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T01:04:20","slug":"die-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/die-another-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Die another day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding which day will be the tricky part. Friday&#8217;s no good because you&#8217;d be opening up a can of worms you&#8217;d never be able to close.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday is a no-go because it already has an abysmal reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday is a terrible choice because it offers a glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak existence and showers you in the gratification you so desperately crave.<\/p>\n<p>Monday won&#8217;t work on account of the fact that it&#8217;s too predictable.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday doesn&#8217;t feel right either because you just can&#8217;t ascertain the true purpose and, as such, feel powerless to stop the unrelenting forces from grounding you in realism.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday just can&#8217;t exist because no one has yet to see it leaping around in the wild. It may as well be a sasquatch or the loch ness monster.<\/p>\n<p>And Saturday would be perfect but now you have the entire weekend to look forward to and isn&#8217;t that just the pits? This is why you wanted to try it in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding which day will be the tricky part. Friday&#8217;s no good because you&#8217;d be opening up a can of worms you&#8217;d never be able to close. Sunday is a no-go because it already has an abysmal reputation. Wednesday is a terrible choice because it offers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56541","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58975,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56541\/revisions\/58975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}