{"id":260,"date":"2009-11-30T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2011-03-01T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T16:23:03","slug":"encephalopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/poetry\/encephalopath\/","title":{"rendered":"Encephalopath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spoonful of my brains in the cotton candy machine<br \/>\nCreutzfeldt-Jakob prions, sweetened-to-taste and caramelized<br \/>\nTwirled around a paper cone handle<br \/>\nA time bomb with a twenty-year fuse<br \/>\nA teaspoon of good ideas, poorly folded<br \/>\nTransmissible only by eating your father&#8217;s brains<br \/>\nAnd cotton candy<br \/>\nStop picking on your sister<br \/>\nAnd apologize for throwing up on your stepmother<br \/>\nAnd promise you&#8217;ll do all of your spelling homework<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll stop beating you with the buckle-end<br \/>\nMaybe<br \/>\nAnd buy you this disease on a stick<br \/>\nThat will completely cure you of everything<br \/>\nBefore you turn thirty<br \/>\nMaybe you&#8217;ll have children before you go<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll teach you to make cotton candy<br \/>\nTaste better with nothing but<br \/>\nThe power of your mind.<\/p>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spoonful of my brains in the cotton candy machine Creutzfeldt-Jakob prions, sweetened-to-taste and caramelized Twirled around a paper cone handle A time bomb with a twenty-year fuse A teaspoon of good ideas, poorly folded Transmissible only by eating your father&#8217;s brains And cotton candy Stop picking on your sister And apologize for throwing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-4c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}