{"id":476,"date":"2020-01-18T05:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2020-04-11T06:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T10:40:43","slug":"behind-the-scenes-in-the-kitchen-at-the-city-lights-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"behind the scenes in the kitchen at the City Lights Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ferlinghetti made spaghetti<br>he probably shared it with his dog<br>very democratic of him<br>I think he shared it with his dog<br>though my mom doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s real literature<br>but she kind of liked it anyway<br>and the dog ate it <br>very democratic of him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William S Burroughs, he made some churros<br> for his lunch, which he shared with the prostitute <br> on the 3rd floor balcony in a shit apartment in Mexico City<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;who sometimes sold drugs<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;or took drugs<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;or read horoscopes <br>and who might have smoked crack<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;with Jack Kerouac<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>come on man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen Ginsberg cooked a mean duck stuffed<br>with ginseng ginger juniper <br>dash of salt naked in the bowl <br>he\u2019d say you have got to howl a bit as you eat it or the <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;seasonings<br>don\u2019t blend right <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;duck<br>Owls and ducks are both birds but <br>you couldn&#8217;t prove it looking at them could you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukowski  was sitting in front of that stove all morning <br>I don\u2019t know what the fuck he made but<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if you can\u2019t stand the beat<br>stay out of the kitchen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferlinghetti made spaghettihe probably shared it with his dogvery democratic of himI think he shared it with his dogthough my mom doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s real literaturebut she kind of liked&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=476\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">behind the scenes in the kitchen at the City Lights Diner<\/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":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}