{"id":73589,"date":"2020-06-28T01:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73589"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:40:31","slug":"cigarettes-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cigarettes-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I light a cigarette<br \/>\nAnd slowly blow out the smoke<br \/>\nWhile sitting on the rooftop<br \/>\nOf this Italian villa<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been to Italy<br \/>\nBut being stuck inside for three months<br \/>\nHas caused me to start daydreaming<br \/>\nAnd making lists of where I want to be<\/p>\n<p>But back to my Italian villa<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s evening<br \/>\nThe weather is cool<br \/>\nThe moon is full<br \/>\nAnd the city below is asleep<\/p>\n<p>My stomach is filled with good food<br \/>\nMy head is full of good wine<br \/>\nAnd I have snuck out onto the roof<br \/>\nTo have this clandestine cigarette<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t had one since before the quarantine<br \/>\nAnd I didn\u2019t dare have one for a good while after<br \/>\nAfraid of putting my lungs at a disadvantage<br \/>\nI have avoided my favorite self-destruction<\/p>\n<p>Oh please, by all the stars in the heavens<br \/>\nLet me have this moment<br \/>\nIn three years or more<br \/>\nLet me be smoking a cigarette on a rooftop in Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I light a cigarette And slowly blow out the smoke While sitting on the rooftop Of this Italian villa I\u2019ve never been to Italy But being stuck inside for three months Has caused me to start daydreaming And making lists of where I want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73589","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\/73589","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73595,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589\/revisions\/73595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}