{"id":105,"date":"2010-04-18T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2023-04-18T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:34:06","slug":"arlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Arlo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attack-of-the-killer-donuts_tb_env_gly_10-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attack-of-the-killer-donuts_tb_env_gly_10-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attack-of-the-killer-donuts_tb_env_gly_10-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attack-of-the-killer-donuts_tb_env_gly_10-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attack-of-the-killer-donuts_tb_env_gly_10-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attack-of-the-killer-donuts_tb_env_gly_10.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Challenge from a friend: a ten-line poem in which all lines rhyme with &#8220;doughnut,&#8221; and featuring the numbers one through ten in each line<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve won,&#8221; says Arlo, &#8220;it&#8217;s so; but<br>You&#8217;ve triumphed too. You low slut,<br>Mrs. Guthrie, years ago, cut<br>Short my hopes for us.&#8221; &#8220;Know what?&#8221;<br>Says his wife. &#8220;I&#8217;ve shown guts,<br>That&#8217;s the basics. So no ifs, no buts\u2014<br>It&#8217;s even.&#8221; Outside their snow hut,<br>A figure recedes; the gate blows shut.<br>A man, with strychnine: no pro, but<br>Arlo&#8217;s eaten his last doughnut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one poem I&#8217;ve ever written that actually holds up.  <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/?p=105\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arlo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewclarksmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}