{"id":563,"date":"2015-02-12T16:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:38:22","slug":"stone-cold-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Stone Cold Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Buddha is suffering in the ice box.<br \/>\nHis pain is melting all the popsicles.<br \/>\nGrape\/orange mantra calls for cleanup,<br \/>\nAnd a new religion without sticks.<br \/>\nI pray to his grey magnetic face,<br \/>\nThere beneath the tide of pink and blue.<br \/>\nNow the psychedelic fridge front preys<br \/>\nUpon our constant need for colorful sweets.<br \/>\nMy Buddha must suffer to disguise his chill.<br \/>\nHe melts. He freezes. And he melts again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Buddha is suffering in the ice box. His pain is melting all the popsicles. Grape\/orange mantra calls for cleanup, And a new religion without sticks. I pray to his grey magnetic face, There beneath &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=563\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":658,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=658","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":0},"title":"Earl Anthony","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Left-handed bowling alleys of the future will become sudden glory things one day. The roads that drove the tribe to next to nowhere will be rerouted, find another way. The pins that fall are most akin to soldiers in an army of widespread despair. In nightmares the desert always smolders.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=606","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":1},"title":"Global Warning","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Polar bear got nowhere to go once the ice all melts away. They're just bears. No one cares. 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