{"id":1960,"date":"2002-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:31:28","slug":"poem-open-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"[Poem] Open 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are these old men, all conversing<br \/>\nand gesticulating at a table;<br \/>\nThey remind me of aging mafia.<br \/>\nThey remind me of aging us.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is our old landlord from<br \/>\nTHE LAIR<br \/>\nHe stopped by to see how his customers<br \/>\nlike their coffee.<br \/>\nHe doesn&#8217;t remember the purple-haired<br \/>\nfat boy in a suit (double-breasted)<br \/>\nfrom the court room.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he always used to call me Aaron.<br \/>\nThat pissed me off<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what miscreants and high society<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll run in to and<br \/>\nbring together<br \/>\nin the next town I plant my roots in.<br \/>\nNot town.<br \/>\nCity.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what it looks like;<br \/>\nthat mark I left on this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are these old men, all conversing and gesticulating at a table; They remind me of aging mafia. They remind me of aging us. One of them is our old landlord from THE LAIR He stopped by to see how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,35,15],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livejournal","tag-poetry","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-vC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}