{"id":95068,"date":"2021-06-26T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95068"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:49:29","slug":"just-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/just-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Thor trails in the door<br \/>\nLimp<br \/>\nHe\u2019s tired, weary.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been a long day.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Claus (she helps him out)<br \/>\n(off season)<br \/>\nBustles over, \u201cDear?<br \/>\nYou look so burned out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He sighs, a great gust of wind.<br \/>\n<em>Whooooooooooooosh<\/em>\u2026<br \/>\nShips in the north sea<br \/>\nPitch on sudden waves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurned out is exactly right.\u201d<br \/>\nHe\u2019s glum.<br \/>\nSits down heavily<br \/>\n(The heavens thunder).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not even done yet!\u201d<br \/>\nHe moans.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s all the film rights!<br \/>\nEndless paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two rooms over, a glass falls.<br \/>\n<em>Wheeaaaaayy!!<br \/>\n<\/em>A Valkyrie laughs.<br \/>\nThor looks baleful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what you need, my dear?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMead.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cA nice cup of tea.\u201d<br \/>\nHe doesn\u2019t protest.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Claus makes the best tea.<br \/>\nWell-known fact.<br \/>\nFruit teas for reindeer<br \/>\nHerbals for Huldras<\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon for Santa Claus<br \/>\n(Dash of nutmeg)<br \/>\nAnd for mighty Thor\u2026<br \/>\nA storm in a teacup.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWHICH of you bone-headed dolts has left this goat in my kitchen again, if you can\u2019t keep it under control I\u2019m sending it down to F\u00f3lkvangr myself, you see if I don\u2019t, and DON&#8217;T think you can scare me with those battle-axes young man, this is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Thor trails in the door Limp He\u2019s tired, weary. It\u2019s been a long day. Mrs. Claus (she helps him out) (off season) Bustles over, \u201cDear? You look so burned out!\u201d He sighs, a great gust of wind. Whooooooooooooosh\u2026 Ships in the north sea Pitch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95068","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95149,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95068\/revisions\/95149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}