{"id":752,"date":"2016-08-10T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2016-08-10T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:47:43","slug":"came-back-as-a-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Came Back as a Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all my finger lickin&#8217;, I came back as a chicken.<br \/>\nI ate a thousand wings, now I&#8217;m one of those things.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m paying for those benders when I ate many tenders.<br \/>\nDid not realize how gory was chicken cacciatore.<br \/>\nI am a chicken now for chewing General Gao.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m paying for that fling with chicken a la king.<br \/>\nI ate it diced and shredded, now I&#8217;m poultry embedded.<br \/>\nI spent life as a guy who craved the breast and thigh.<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s too late to beg, &#8217;cause I am of the egg.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s no use to growl, I ran afoul of fowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all my finger lickin&#8217;, I came back as a chicken. I ate a thousand wings, now I&#8217;m one of those things. I&#8217;m paying for those benders when I ate many tenders. Did not realize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=752\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-752","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":1340,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1340","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":0},"title":"Slip of the Tongue","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I only ate one slice of bacon, just some gristle and some fat, but my vegan friends went crazy, asking how could I do that. 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