{"id":68079,"date":"2020-06-27T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68079"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:59:04","slug":"the-bill-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-bill-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bill Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many?<\/p>\n<p>Ya, how many?<\/p>\n<p>How many what?<\/p>\n<p>How many Bills have you collected?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many bills?<\/p>\n<p>Ya. How many Bills?<\/p>\n<p>How many have you collected?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who could remember?<\/p>\n<p>Too many to count.<\/p>\n<p>And why do you care?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m missing a Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Just one?<\/p>\n<p>Only one.<\/p>\n<p>Extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where do you keep them?<\/p>\n<p>Keep what?<\/p>\n<p>Keep Who.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who?<\/p>\n<p>Where do you keep the Bills?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t keep them. I only collect them.<\/p>\n<p>Where do they go after you collect them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They get paid and go away.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you&#8217;d find mine.<\/p>\n<p>What bill is it?<\/p>\n<p>Bill Sears<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Sears for what?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Bill Sears.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no Sears bills.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m missing Bill Sears.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You bill Sears?<\/p>\n<p>You want me to collect them?<\/p>\n<p>Collect what?<\/p>\n<p>What Sears owes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t owe anything<\/p>\n<p>Who?<\/p>\n<p>Bill Sears.<\/p>\n<p>But why would I want to bill Sears?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, for heaven&#8217;s sake!<\/p>\n<p>What have you done with Bill Sears?<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done anything with any Sears bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now go away and stop bothering me.<\/p>\n<p>Find my Bill and I&#8217;ll be gone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many? Ya, how many? How many what? How many Bills have you collected? &nbsp; How many bills? Ya. How many Bills? How many have you collected? &nbsp; Who could remember? Too many to count. And why do you care? &nbsp; I&#8217;m missing a Bill&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68079","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\/1443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69270,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68079\/revisions\/69270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}