{"id":99892,"date":"2021-06-27T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99892"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:37:36","slug":"17-thank-you-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/17-thank-you-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"17. Thank You, Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Books were safer than other people anyway&#8221;<br \/>\n-Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take the hard corners<br \/>\nof a good book in my back<br \/>\nunder my covers<br \/>\nover the fleshy resentments<br \/>\nof a worn out love affair<br \/>\ngnawing silently through my ribcage<br \/>\nany night &#8230; every night.<\/p>\n<p>He drunktink tinked his sloshy glass against<br \/>\nliquor bottles on the front hall sideboard.<br \/>\nHe called them &#8220;decanters in the fourier&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was the entryway to his tract home<br \/>\nhis rented tract home<br \/>\nhis rented tract home&#8230; in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Pretentious Fuck.<\/p>\n<p>Pretentious Fleshy Fuck.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a few selfie novels<br \/>\nmany years ago&#8230;<br \/>\nthought they were open ended<br \/>\nfestival seating all access passes.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing like getting cock blocked<br \/>\nby Don Miguel Ruiz, William Hudson, James Frey&#8230; Oprah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How was it for you?<\/p>\n<p>Did you feel it<br \/>\nway down in your fourier?<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_193452_421.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Books were safer than other people anyway&#8221; -Neil Gaiman I&#8217;ll take the hard corners of a good book in my back under my covers over the fleshy resentments of a worn out love affair gnawing silently through my ribcage any night &#8230; every night. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99916,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892\/revisions\/99916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}