{"id":305,"date":"2019-08-31T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onyx23.net\/beats\/?p=305"},"modified":"2019-08-31T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:02:33","slug":"midnight-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/08\/31\/midnight-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>midnight hunger strike<br \/>\nnot by choice<br \/>\njust my kitchen contains<br \/>\nan excess of empty cabinent space<br \/>\nand I crawl to my knees<br \/>\npraying to Mr. Maytag<br \/>\nto bless me with some tasty form of nourishment<br \/>\nthat will satisfy the bubbling ulcer<br \/>\nthat demands to be fed<br \/>\nI muster up my last bit of energy<br \/>\nto open the refrigerator door<br \/>\nonly to find, the gods to be unkind<br \/>\nand cheerfully changed my fridge<br \/>\ninto some sort of chilled coffin<br \/>\njust one jar of expired pickles<br \/>\nand a few packs of Burger King ketchup<br \/>\nnothing that constitutes real meal<br \/>\nhell, nothing that even resembles a snack<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s when it hits me<br \/>\nI hate pickles but love ketchup<br \/>\nso maybe the two will equal out<br \/>\nforming some new neutral substance<br \/>\nthat I can swallow down<br \/>\nwith a warm glass of polluted tap water<br \/>\ndamn dominoes for their lack of late night deliveries<br \/>\nforcing me to this brutal choice<br \/>\nwhich I am not brave enough to eat<br \/>\nand I have this strange fantasy<br \/>\nabout cattle mutilations<br \/>\nbeing caused by hungry people just like me<br \/>\nand slapping down some crop circles<br \/>\nto shift the blame on an alien conspiracy<br \/>\nI decide not to try this caustic creation<br \/>\nof ketchup covered pickles<br \/>\ncatch my second wind<br \/>\nand drive to see the messiah Sam Walton<br \/>\nand his 24hr Wal Mart Super-Center<br \/>\nthank god for apples and caramel dip at 2am<br \/>\nchow down and munch up<br \/>\nto barely make it to see another day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>midnight hunger strike not by choice just my kitchen contains an excess of empty cabinent space and I crawl to my knees praying to Mr. Maytag to bless me with<a href=\"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/08\/31\/midnight-hunger-strike\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midnight Hunger Strike<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}