{"id":88647,"date":"2021-06-26T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88647"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:22:36","slug":"coffee-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/coffee-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Changes Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 2\u2014coffee &amp; change prompt)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee Changes Everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After sixteen years of sobriety,<\/p>\n<p>A waitress handed me decaf from the wrong pot<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t taste the difference in a greasy, road-side waffle joint<\/p>\n<p>Forty miles later, possibilities and plans percolated in my brain<\/p>\n<p>My foot pressed too close to the floor<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the question, \u201cMa\u2019am, do you know how fast you were going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had to say \u201cno,\u201d to be honest<\/p>\n<p>I stood jittery, stepped out of the car,<\/p>\n<p>With one officer checking my license and registration<\/p>\n<p>The other checking my eye movement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not nerves, sir, I need another hit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 2\u2014coffee &amp; change prompt) &nbsp; &nbsp; Coffee Changes Everything &nbsp; After sixteen years of sobriety, A waitress handed me decaf from the wrong pot You can\u2019t taste the difference in a greasy, road-side waffle joint Forty miles later, possibilities and plans percolated in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,899,406],"class_list":["post-88647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-coffee-poems","tag-prompt-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88647","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88699,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88647\/revisions\/88699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}