{"id":93620,"date":"2021-06-26T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93620"},"modified":"2021-07-24T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T01:49:34","slug":"under-the-veneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/under-the-veneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Veneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite recipes have an element of danger.<br \/>\nThen, I observe how not to follow them<br \/>\nuntil I can make maximum example of my shortcomings<br \/>\nand the performative chagrin I convey just short<br \/>\nof a bow.<\/p>\n<p>Only my select audiences know how I juggle<br \/>\nan armistice in one hand<br \/>\nand a cleaver in the other.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me how you&#8217;d like my job.<br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t I know it<\/em>.<br \/>\nHaven&#8217;t I gone through the machinations<br \/>\nfor you to take my mantel?<br \/>\nOr at least keep it clear of the riff raff<br \/>\nwho think democracy means<br \/>\nthey have a place here.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a turtle.<br \/>\nCall me a hare.<br \/>\nCall me a fascist.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a place in a bunker.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just the right temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite recipes have an element of danger. Then, I observe how not to follow them until I can make maximum example of my shortcomings and the performative chagrin I convey just short of a bow. Only my select audiences know how I juggle an&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93620","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=93620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104600,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93620\/revisions\/104600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}