{"id":50,"date":"2016-01-07T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2016-01-07T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:01:46","slug":"the-customer-is-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/poetry\/the-customer-is-god\/","title":{"rendered":"the Customer is God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the land where the customer is God<\/p>\n<p>time paddles by you with broken oars<\/p>\n<p>and there is never anytime for thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You must clean the spots off the polka-dots<\/p>\n<p>and scrub lunch away with soapy sores<\/p>\n<p>in the land where the customer is God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each god\u2019s grace is your wage, any is a lot.<\/p>\n<p>You ask yourself, \u201cWhy less and not more?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>but there is never anytime time for thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWant a refill?\u201d \u201cAnything I forgot?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes sir.\u201d \u201cNo sir.\u201d Your vernacular<\/p>\n<p>in the land where the customer is God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here you tell yourself to smile, laugh, and nod.<\/p>\n<p>Here your dreams implore but reality retorts<\/p>\n<p>for there is never anytime for thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Year\u2019s die, but you stay, just wrinkle and rot<\/p>\n<p>and dream of the day you\u2019ll walk out that door<\/p>\n<p>but in the land where the customer is God<\/p>\n<p>there is never anytime for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the land where the customer is God time paddles by you with broken oars and there is never anytime for thought. &nbsp; You must clean the spots off the polka-dots and scrub lunch away with soapy sores in the land where the customer is God. &nbsp; Each god\u2019s grace is your wage, any is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/poetry\/the-customer-is-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the Customer is God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadsquirrelpro.com\/sethpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}