poetry as a form of
\nconsolation, but for what?
\nthe audience, once held captive
\nat the open mike where he MCd,
\ndoesn’t know but listens
\npolitely to his rhythmic tales
\nof animal pals, Zen lite, and
\ndating escapades – now,
\ncountless quatrains later, we’re
\nall tired and ready to move on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
poetry as a form of consolation, but for what? the audience, once held captive at the open mike where he MCd, doesn’t know but listens politely to his rhythmic tales of animal pals, Zen lite, and dating escapades – now, countless quatrains later, we’re all tired and ready to move on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-of-gems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}