{"id":68498,"date":"2020-06-27T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68498"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:22:35","slug":"agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t serve it by the slice<br \/>\nit isn\u2019t real coffee<br \/>\nso sayeth myself<br \/>\nto anyone who will listen<br \/>\nIf I have guests, it also serves as<br \/>\nwarning-shot across the bow<br \/>\nfor those faint of arabica heart<\/p>\n<p>It is a good day when the java<br \/>\ncomes from the carafe like<br \/>\nthe meat off a Thanksgiving bird<br \/>\nplated in a mug that I can take<br \/>\noutside, my backyard deck<\/p>\n<p>fragrances mingling<br \/>\nfresh brew, grass-caressing dew<br \/>\ncream and sugar<br \/>\nsparrow chatter and crow caw<br \/>\na day coming to life<br \/>\nme coming to life<br \/>\nlife coming to life<\/p>\n<p>I need a vintage<br \/>\npercolator to rub<br \/>\nconjuring up barista genie<br \/>\ngranting me my every<br \/>\ncaffeinated desire<br \/>\nBut I will settle for<br \/>\nmore mornings<br \/>\nmore nights with which<br \/>\nto anticipate<br \/>\nmore mornings<br \/>\nmore coffee<br \/>\ntimes to contemplate<br \/>\nthe &#8216;how&#8217; practicality<br \/>\nof making my coffee<br \/>\nsliceable <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2020<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t serve it by the slice it isn\u2019t real coffee so sayeth myself to anyone who will listen If I have guests, it also serves as warning-shot across the bow for those faint of arabica heart It is a good day when the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[3658,3442],"class_list":["post-68498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2020hr6","tag-2020poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79419,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions\/79419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}