{"id":74831,"date":"2020-06-28T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74831"},"modified":"2020-06-28T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:40:08","slug":"couch-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/couch-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Couch commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Couch commander<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know<\/p>\n<p>You like to be in charge<\/p>\n<p>You know how things should be done<\/p>\n<p>You are free with<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>your thoughts<\/p>\n<p>Your also like to have a comfortable spot to share your thoughts with others<\/p>\n<p>You are the couch commander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You are used to being catered to<\/p>\n<p>You are used to being served<\/p>\n<p>You say we are all friends<\/p>\n<p>But you are think of yourself as more<\/p>\n<p>You think you are the queen bee<\/p>\n<p>You are the couch commander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know<\/p>\n<p>You talk about equality and justice<\/p>\n<p>About the marches you have attended<\/p>\n<p>And universal human rights you believe in<\/p>\n<p>Never looking at your own life<\/p>\n<p>Never leaving your comfortable spot<\/p>\n<p>Letting others make the coffee<\/p>\n<p>Letting others get the lunch and clean it up<\/p>\n<p>You are the couch commander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know<\/p>\n<p>You proclaim about social justice<\/p>\n<p>But you never offer us the best spot<\/p>\n<p>You are content to be served<\/p>\n<p>We women of the hard chairs<\/p>\n<p>We women who never<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>sit<\/p>\n<p>Also need our place in the sun<\/p>\n<p>We, who are always serving, always doing<\/p>\n<p>While you proclaim about social justice<\/p>\n<p>Your bottom firmly on the couch<\/p>\n<p>Will claim our due from you, the couch commander<\/p>\n<p>Bette Low 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Couch commander &nbsp; I know You like to be in charge You know how things should be done You are free with\u00a0 your thoughts Your also like to have a comfortable spot to share your thoughts with others You are the couch commander &nbsp; I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74831","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\/1437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74850,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74831\/revisions\/74850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}