{"id":1941,"date":"2014-11-14T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:30:48","slug":"when-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2014\/11\/14\/when-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN IN ROME"},"content":{"rendered":"
by\u00a0EMILY<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n

Me & a group of gummy bears
\nriding on a train to hell,
\nwalking up to Satan’s door &
\nfighting over who rings the bell.<\/p>\n

We all pull down our pants &
\nyell for him to kiss it.
\nHe looks at us, confused, as
\nwe make ourselves at home.<\/p>\n

We’re heading here anyway,
\nso, as they say, “When in Rome.”<\/p>\n

He yells for us to leave, but
\nwe’re not going anywhere.
\nFeet up, champagne popped,
\nwe honestly don’t care.<\/p>\n

“Our time is now,” we say. “So leave
\nor you will die!”<\/p>\n

He huffs at us right before the
\ngummy bears rip out his eyes.
\n“We’re taking over & there isn’t
\na thing you can do. So surrender now &
\nwe might not kill you,” they say.<\/p>\n

Of course, where I’m from
\nwe lie, we would have said he fell.
\nBut there’s no need for that,
\nbecause we’re in hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0EMILY<\/a> <\/p>\n

Me & a group of gummy bears
riding on a train to hell,
walking up to Satan’s door &
fighting over who rings the bell.<\/p>\n

We all pull down our pants &
yell for him to kiss it.
He looks at us, confused, as
we make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[99873],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-emily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}