{"id":2589,"date":"2022-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:17:18","slug":"the-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2022\/05\/the-request\/","title":{"rendered":"The Request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0099cc;font-size: small\">\n<strong>Image:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u00a9\ufe0f &#8220;Ordinary Wooden Spoon&#8221; by limecools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Anonymous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write me a poem about the&nbsp;<br>ineptitudes&nbsp;that plague your&nbsp;<br>insipid character, that stumbling&nbsp;<br>tongue I ceaselessly point out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or perhaps about the mild indulgences&nbsp;<br>of an ordinary existence&nbsp;you do not<br>mention, in order to postpone your&nbsp;<br>appointment&nbsp;with my reprobative whacks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But not about my petulance at the sight&nbsp;<br>of you biting a whole, unpeeled apple&nbsp;<br>(idolized alarmists have sensed a worm&nbsp;<br>and&nbsp;aesthetes will gasp at those caving&nbsp;<br>teeth: \u201cso unsightly\u201d).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor about my lifelong sobriety&nbsp;<br>quenched&nbsp;by inner quarrels. They&nbsp;<br>leak as small fits cracking&nbsp;large&nbsp;<br>wooden spoons, or soaring word&nbsp;<br>bricks in lieu&nbsp;of dictionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write me a poem, implored the mother,<br>without writing it about me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image:&nbsp;\u00a9\ufe0f &#8220;Ordinary Wooden Spoon&#8221; by limecools Author: Anonymous Write me a poem about the&nbsp;ineptitudes&nbsp;that plague your&nbsp;insipid character, that stumbling&nbsp;tongue I ceaselessly point out. Or perhaps about the mild indulgences&nbsp;of an ordinary existence&nbsp;you do notmention, in order to postpone your&nbsp;appointment&nbsp;with my reprobative whacks.&nbsp; But not about my petulance at the sight&nbsp;of you biting a whole, unpeeled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2022-spring","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}