{"id":2845,"date":"2010-04-26T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/poetic-justice\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:07:43","slug":"poetic-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/poetic-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.   <br \/>\nThe burglars kicked in the sidedoor    <br \/>\nand invaded our kitchen    <br \/>\nstealing 22 years of safety    <br \/>\nand a cheap TV.<\/p>\n<p>2.   <br \/>\nWe painted that kitchen    <br \/>\nin a project which     <br \/>\nbegan with stripping ugly wallpaper and ended     <br \/>\nwith a pretty security door a week too late.<\/p>\n<p>3.   <br \/>\nThieves ransacked the dresser    <br \/>\nshe bought from her landlady in Virginia,    <br \/>\nthe top strewn with a lifetime\u2019s sentimental baubles    <br \/>\npawed through by worthless thugs.<\/p>\n<p>4.   <br \/>\nIn the garage,    <br \/>\na thief spread the contents of the glovebox    <br \/>\nover the seats,    <br \/>\nas if taking inventory before a long trip.<\/p>\n<p>5.   <br \/>\nBack at their hideout,    <br \/>\nthe burglars exclaimed,    <br \/>\n\u201cMan, those people had nothin\u2019 worth stealing.    <br \/>\n<em>We<\/em> were robbed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><small>9\/16\/2009<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The burglars kicked in the sidedoor and invaded our kitchen stealing 22 years of safety and a cheap TV. 2. We painted that kitchen in a project which began with stripping ugly wallpaper and ended with a pretty security door a week too late. 3. Thieves ransacked the dresser she bought from her landlady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/poetic-justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poetic Justice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75,105],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-misc","tag-unbooked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}