{"id":95535,"date":"2021-06-26T18:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95535"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:35:05","slug":"mahjong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/mahjong\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHJONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An endless game,<br \/>\nmuch like fooling myself.<br \/>\nIf one game doesn&#8217;t work out,<br \/>\nyou can always do it again.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s nothing but a simple<br \/>\ntile arrangement and a matter<br \/>\nof choice &#8212; who to marry,<br \/>\nwhere to live, to keep<br \/>\nor not keep a pet, which tile<br \/>\nmatches another, and in which<br \/>\norder should the dominoes fall.<br \/>\nDo I push or pull, walk or<br \/>\ntrot, live or stop.<br \/>\nAnd am I ever allowed to<br \/>\nrearrange the years, putting<br \/>\nthe cardinal wind directions<br \/>\nahead of the seasons?<br \/>\nWho am I fooling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An endless game, much like fooling myself. If one game doesn&#8217;t work out, you can always do it again. It&#8217;s nothing but a simple tile arrangement and a matter of choice &#8212; who to marry, where to live, to keep or not keep a pet,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95535","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95614,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95535\/revisions\/95614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}