{"id":299,"date":"2014-03-02T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T01:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/?p=299"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T01:45:00","slug":"3030-no-2-detour-for-idiom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/3030-no-2-detour-for-idiom\/","title":{"rendered":"30\/30 No. 2:  Detour for Idiom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Detour for Idiom:\u00a0 Overheard in the Neighborhood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0You could meet your ass end comin\u2019 around them back streets on the detour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Yeah, our little neck of the woods doesn\u2019t see as much traffic in a month o\u2019 Sundays<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">as since that old hotel bit the dust.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">busier\u2018n a one-armed paper hanger over here,<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">what with the lookey-loos.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I know.\u00a0 Hey, I heard Gary allow<\/p>\n<p>they burnt it down for the insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Dunno if I can cotton to that, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0Nope.\u00a0 That dog don\u2019t hunt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This poem<\/strong> <\/em>is the\u00a0second in my marathon of poems (plus 3.8) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/index.php\">Tupelo Press\u2019s <\/a>cool fundraising project 30\/30.\u00a0 You can view the poems I and the other \u201crunners\u201d submit every day during the month of March, at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tupelopress.wordpress.com\/3030-project\/\">http:\/\/tupelopress.wordpress.com\/3030-project\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow our work, and if you find it even the slightest bit entertaining, engaging, thought-provoking, or just generally worthy, donate to Tupelo Press, an independent literary publisher.\u00a0 <strong>Sponsor me<\/strong> by entering <em><strong>T. Thibodeaux Baar<\/strong> <\/em>in the \u201cin honor of\u201d line on the donation form, which you can find here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/donate.php\">https:\/\/www.tupelopress.org\/donate.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Scroll down; it\u2019s a form!)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by!\u00a0 I am happy to hear from you via email or comments.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\":-)\" src=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LouLou (the main monkey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detour for Idiom:\u00a0 Overheard in the Neighborhood \u00a0You could meet your ass end comin\u2019 around them back streets on the detour. &nbsp; Yeah, our little neck of the woods doesn\u2019t see as much traffic in a month o\u2019 Sundays as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/3030-no-2-detour-for-idiom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}