{"id":660,"date":"2022-08-08T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:38:22","slug":"the-chefs-antipode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"The Chef&#8217;s Antipode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you find a cockroach in a pie served a la mode,<br>although you may be loath to broach or tell the episode,<br>because the chef&#8217;s beyond reproach, or lest his head explode,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the topic, still, you should approach!<br>For that cockroach *will* encroach,<br>and all your pie he&#8217;ll try to poach<br>(he&#8217;s very fast, no slowcoach roach),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and all your ice cream he&#8217;ll erode,<br>and your piecrust, discommode.<br>Your whipped cream now he is bestrode!<br>Through your filling he has strode,<br>That bloated beast, that six-legged toad,<br>the blessed chef&#8217;s chief antipode!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of pie and self-reproach now make a heavy load,<br>I&#8217;ll lick my wounds (and plate), encoach myself upon the road,<br>And find myself a better coach for penning my next ode!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you find a cockroach in a pie served a la mode,although you may be loath to broach or tell the episode,because the chef&#8217;s beyond reproach, or lest his head&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=660\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Chef&#8217;s Antipode<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}