{"id":789,"date":"2002-08-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=19"},"modified":"2008-12-12T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:17:29","slug":"cheesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Cheesy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pulitzer Committee:<\/p>\n<p>I would like to submit a piece from an author who may likely be the most important new poet of the 21st century. While her milieu may be limited, she is able to muse upon any dairy product with eloquence and style. Please consider the following for your esteemed award.<\/p>\n<div class=\"small\"><strong>feta<\/strong><br \/>\nby <a class=\"minilink2\" href=\"mailto:dictator@chocolatemussolini.com?subject=your fine verse\">stephanie ripley<\/a>oh joy!<br \/>\nsweet, sweet heaven<br \/>\nthat dances across my tongue and<br \/>\nbegs me to merge with the soul of the earth.<br \/>\npungent yet merciful in its taste,<br \/>\nthe crumbles lure me away to another world,<br \/>\nanother land,<br \/>\na land of ruins, olive trees, old times passed.<br \/>\na land&#8230; of cheese.<br \/>\nwhat gods have brought to this unworthy planet<br \/>\nthe precious gifts of love, obsession, satisfaction.<br \/>\noh feta, thou art perfection.<br \/>\nno holes betray you like the neutral swiss.<br \/>\nno strings belie you.<br \/>\nthou art infinitely better than any kraft product<br \/>\nthat ever graced our nation.<br \/>\nfeta.<br \/>\nthe art of cheese.<br \/>\nthe art of life.<\/div>\n<p>Thank you for your consideration.<br \/>\nJenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pulitzer Committee: I would like to submit a piece from an author who may likely be the most important new poet of the 21st century. While her milieu may be limited, she is able to muse upon any dairy product with eloquence and style. Please consider the following for your esteemed award. feta by &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=789\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9qt-cheesy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}