Feverish hostess
\nserves chickpeas dropped on the floor—
\na guest spills the beans.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
Sick party-goer
\ncoughs and sneezes on buffet—
\nchilly reception.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
The corner bakeshop
\nseems a buttery temptress,
\nbut smells can deceive.
\nPastries seduce, disappoint—
\nbuttery temptress no more.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
My first memory:
\nthe sound and the vibration
\nof a freight train’s roar.
\nBudding logic says, “Can’t be.”
\nSensed pre-birth within the womb?<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
(My second haiku was inspired by Haiku Heights’<\/em> cold<\/em><\/a> prompt. My first memory<\/em> tanka was inspired by Free Write Fridays<\/em><\/a> and Monday Memories<\/em><\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feverish hostess serves chickpeas dropped on the floor— a guest spills the beans. ***** Sick party-goer coughs and sneezes on buffet— chilly reception. ***** The corner bakeshop seems a buttery temptress, but smells can deceive. Pastries seduce, disappoint— buttery temptress no more. ***** My first memory: the sound and the vibration of a freight train’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,41,99,23,122,108,121],"tags":[1897,412,215,1691,1895,1896,1901,1894,1898,1900,4983,360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"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=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}