{"id":324,"date":"2008-06-16T23:58:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T03:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/06\/16\/ode-to-a-letter-opener\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:21:42","slug":"ode-to-a-letter-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/06\/16\/ode-to-a-letter-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To A Letter Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem started out as a senryu. But 17-syllables weren&#8217;t enough to say what I needed to say.\u00a0 So I added two 7-syllable lines, turning it into my first tanka:<\/p>\n<p>Letter opener<br \/>\nNearly cast aside as trash<br \/>\nNow my salvation,<br \/>\nSoothing, becalming the itch<br \/>\nThat haunts my encasted arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem started out as a senryu. But 17-syllables weren&#8217;t enough to say what I needed to say.\u00a0 So I added two 7-syllable lines, turning it into my first tanka: Letter opener Nearly cast aside as trash Now my salvation, Soothing, becalming the itch That haunts my encasted arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[122,121],"tags":[605,606,604,1857,4983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}