{"id":247,"date":"2016-04-10T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2016-04-10T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:56:17","slug":"fry-cook-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"fry cook in hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one fry joint looks pretty much another<br \/>\nthey all really sorta look the same<br \/>\neverybody knows you need to work there<br \/>\nbut no one seems to need to know your name<\/p>\n<p>the greasy spoon, the diner, and the truck stop<br \/>\nthey all attract the self same clientele<br \/>\nthey greasy kid, the trucker, and beat cop<br \/>\nthe teen-aged temptress with her sales to sell<\/p>\n<p>she walked in and i said, you are an angel<br \/>\nshe laughed a throaty laugh and said, do tell<br \/>\nand I&#8217;d always kinda known that i had fallen<br \/>\nbut I never really guessed how far i fell<br \/>\nthat is when i knew i&#8217;d found my callin&#8217;<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s how i know i&#8217;m dropping fries in Hell<\/p>\n<p>old Scratch has got a fryer full of oil<br \/>\njust waiting to find out which way you roll<br \/>\nand he&#8217;s got that sucker up so hot it&#8217;s smoking<br \/>\nso he can bite into my\u00a0battered, breaded soul<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m cooking here while devils\u00a0want their munchies<br \/>\ni&#8217;m safe as long as the job and tips don&#8217;t fail<br \/>\ni smile at the girl, hair back in scrunchies<br \/>\nand pretend that i can&#8217;t see her teeth and tail<\/p>\n<p>she tells me that she started as a fry cook<br \/>\nthat she worked her way above the ranks from there<br \/>\nthat i could do the same just like a boss<br \/>\nbut looking in her eyes, i didn&#8217;t care<br \/>\ni fell into her\u00a0gaze and\u00a0i was lost<br \/>\nsuch\u00a0beauty that\u00a0my soul could never bear<br \/>\nmy battered soul reached out for hers, and fell,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">deep-fried and golden brown<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">bobbing in\u00a0the oil vats<\/p>\n<p>of Hell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one fry joint looks pretty much another they all really sorta look the same everybody knows you need to work there but no one seems to need to know your&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=247\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">fry cook in hell<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}