{"id":72915,"date":"2020-06-28T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72915"},"modified":"2020-06-28T00:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:38:59","slug":"prompt-16-food-is-the-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-16-food-is-the-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 16: Food is the Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You knew how to seduce me,<br \/>\nwho before we met<br \/>\ncalled carrots and hummus dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Our first meal<br \/>\nwas at a Korean restaurant<br \/>\nand introduced me to your quietly competitive nature<br \/>\nwhen it came to declaring victories over flavors<br \/>\nand the tongue you would share them with.<\/p>\n<p>We mutually agreed,<br \/>\nwithout telling the other,<br \/>\nto never take each other for granted.<br \/>\nOur pet names for each other<br \/>\npunctuate every meal, and, yes,<br \/>\nI always ask for salad<br \/>\njust to hear you say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Agitate your greens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You are my superstar.<br \/>\nAll the photos I take of you<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t even begin to explore<br \/>\nevery facet of who you are,<br \/>\nbut capturing you in various moments<br \/>\nis something you&#8217;ve accepted<br \/>\neven though you always pull the same<br \/>\nsilly look when you see me pointing<br \/>\nmy phone camera at you.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me the spices you&#8217;ll use tomorrow,<br \/>\nTell me how you created the sauce for the pasta,<br \/>\nTell me which method of roasting you&#8217;ll defend <\/p>\n<p>You have my ears and my mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You knew how to seduce me, who before we met called carrots and hummus dinner. Our first meal was at a Korean restaurant and introduced me to your quietly competitive nature when it came to declaring victories over flavors and the tongue you would share&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72915","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=72915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73158,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72915\/revisions\/73158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}