{"id":2475,"date":"2010-09-27T21:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2010-10-05T07:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:01:35","slug":"write-in-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2010\/write-in-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Write in Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Write in Pen<br \/>\nHe says blandly<br \/>\nI look up surprised<br \/>\nWhat?<br \/>\nAlways use a pen<br \/>\nPencils are worthless<br \/>\nHe blows out smoke<br \/>\nFrom a drooping mouth<br \/>\nPulled down by age<br \/>\nIf you want your work<br \/>\nTo be serious<br \/>\nWrite in pen<br \/>\nAll else will be forgotten<br \/>\nIf it can be erased,<br \/>\nIt will be erased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I look at the old pencil<br \/>\nSitting in my hands<br \/>\nIt had grown small<br \/>\nAnd grungy<br \/>\nFrom repeated and relentless use<br \/>\nBut I always write in pencil<br \/>\nI say as I watch<br \/>\nHis indifference<br \/>\nSmirking at me<br \/>\nOver the top<br \/>\nOf a wilted old newspaper<br \/>\nHe shrugs<br \/>\nThen you will be forgotten<br \/>\nThat was all he said<br \/>\nAs he folded his paper<br \/>\nDropped his cigarette<br \/>\nSnuffing it out<br \/>\nWith the toe<br \/>\nOf his fancy shoes<br \/>\nI told myself to forget him<br \/>\nHis words meant nothing<br \/>\nJust smoke and mirrors<br \/>\nFrom a strange old man<br \/>\nYet here I am writing in pen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write in Pen He says blandly I look up surprised What? Always use a pen Pencils are worthless He blows out smoke From a drooping mouth Pulled down by age If you want your work To be serious Write in pen All else will be forgotten If it can be erased, It will be erased. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1318,1316,879,632,1317,1314,1315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}