{"id":90,"date":"2007-12-16T21:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T02:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-12-17T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:12:03","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often visit the Tree<br \/>\nUntangling from fiber as living flesh<br \/>\nSerpent tongue<br \/>\nEve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inner ear wishes<br \/>\nWhispering sweet nothings<br \/>\nWashing away memory of earlier gods<br \/>\nShe tastes Adam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apple<br \/>\nFlesh so like yet so unlike her own<br \/>\nThis is not transgression this<br \/>\nIs life seeking its own godhead<br \/>\nSwallowing its own tail<\/p>\n<p>Elmer and Bugs,  Sylvester and Tweety,  Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote<br \/>\nLooney Toon Socratic Method<br \/>\nHunt and pursuit but never any capture<br \/>\nAlso Strindberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eternal war between the sexes<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Self Portrait<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>edge of ledge of knowledge<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"diva tongue\" title=\"diva tongue\" src=\"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/ratsass\/tongue1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"357\" alt=\"fridge\" title=\"fridge\" src=\"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/ratsass\/fridgefestcard.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often visit the Tree Untangling from fiber as living flesh Serpent tongue Eve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inner ear wishes Whispering sweet nothings Washing away memory of earlier gods She tastes Adam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apple Flesh so like yet so unlike her own This is not transgression this Is life seeking its own godhead Swallowing its own tail Elmer and Bugs, Sylvester and Tweety, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Looney Toon Socratic Method Hunt and pursuit but never any capture Also Strindberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eternal war&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=90\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}