{"id":757,"date":"2013-02-10T06:29:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T10:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2013-02-10T06:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T10:29:24","slug":"mr-cheese-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Cheese at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mr. Cheese at Dusk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t give up cheese, my neighbor says,<br \/>\nWhen I tell him what I eat since I almost died.<br \/>\nMr. Cheese, leaning on the lamp post, laughs<br \/>\nTo hear this now familiar refrain.<br \/>\nHe follows me around just to hear it.<br \/>\nIt makes his day, such heartfelt devotion,<br \/>\nClearly evidenced by my neighbor&#8217;s waist.<\/p>\n<p>Cheese always wins. My students, in stories<br \/>\nCan find places they&#8217;ve never been before\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nInside themselves, an undiscovered crossroads\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nAnd then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they hitch a ride with Mr. Cheese<br \/>\nFor a car chase (goes without saying, right?)<br \/>\nA vampire, a serial killer, both.<br \/>\nThe whole fucking thing&#8217;s like just a dream, right?<br \/>\nHow cool is that? Cheese asks, laughing so hard<br \/>\nHe can&#8217;t stop. No one can stop Mr. Cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Down the street we see three deliverers,<br \/>\nBlinkers flashing, carrying Cheese in their arms,<br \/>\nSwaddled to keep him warm. Come baby, come,<br \/>\nCome let&#8217;s adore him, baked into a pie.<br \/>\nMr. Cheese, he stick with you till you die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Cheese at Dusk I couldn&#8217;t give up cheese, my neighbor says, When I tell him what I eat since I almost died. Mr. Cheese, leaning on the lamp post, laughs To hear this now familiar refrain. He follows me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-and-diet","category-poems","category-writing-advice"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}