{"id":899,"date":"2014-12-12T01:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T08:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/?p=899"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:30:17","slug":"an-elgy-for-my-lost-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/2014\/12\/12\/an-elgy-for-my-lost-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"An elgy for my lost teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~reminescing to that time i flushed my false teeth down the toilet.~<\/p>\n<p>Do pearly whites<br \/>\nreach the Pearly Gates<br \/>\nthrough tiny holes in porcelain bowls?<\/p>\n<p>I mourn at night<br \/>\nfor liths of white<br \/>\nas regret assaults my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I curse my surgeon<br \/>\nwho builds his fortune<br \/>\non such ill-fitting designs.<\/p>\n<p>The feeble hold<br \/>\nof the glue that moulds<br \/>\nthe palette to my gum.<\/p>\n<p>You could not stay<br \/>\n&#8217;til the end of day<br \/>\nand keep me from this slum?<\/p>\n<p>Though lost to sea<br \/>\nmy iv&#8217;ry debris<br \/>\nmay be swallowed by a fish.<\/p>\n<p>Caught in the quay and served to me,<br \/>\nthe epitome of irony,<br \/>\nfilleted upon a dish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.funinmarriage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/21949200.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-Aaron Bailey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~reminescing to that time i flushed my false teeth down the toilet.~ Do pearly whites reach the Pearly Gates through tiny holes in porcelain bowls? I mourn at night for liths of white as regret assaults my mind. I curse my surgeon who builds his fortune on such ill-fitting designs. The feeble hold of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}