{"id":1175,"date":"2023-03-08T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2023-03-08T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:30:28","slug":"out-to-eat-by-micah-helzerman-2023-love-stinks-writing-contest-1st-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2023\/03\/08\/out-to-eat-by-micah-helzerman-2023-love-stinks-writing-contest-1st-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Out to Eat by Micah Helzerman (2023 Love Stinks Writing Contest: 1st Place)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhere would you like to eat?\u201d<br>A question as old as time.<br>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, you can pick,<br>anywhere to me seems fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s get burgers and fries,<br>that would be tasty and nice.&#8221;<br>She looked up, rolled her eyes,<br>&#8220;Haven&#8217;t you heard of their lies?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We could try that new place,&#8221;<br>pointing to the map, with grace.<br>&#8220;My brother went there, Chase,<br>in his food was a shoelace.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What about some stir fry,<br>where they cook at your table?&#8221;<br>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so,<br>with all of their faces, I wouldn&#8217;t be able.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Honey, you disagree with my every choice,<br>I think it&#8217;s time for you to decide.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Let&#8217;s just go back home,&#8221; she said,<br>&#8220;where we can eat and confide.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, my dear, that sounds great.<br>I just wanted to spend time with you.&#8221;<br>&#8220;How about after we eat,<br>we could watch a good movie, or two?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere would you like to eat?\u201dA question as old as time.&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, you can pick,anywhere to me seems fine.&#8221; &#8220;Let&#8217;s get burgers and fries,that would be tasty and nice.&#8221;She looked up, rolled her eyes,&#8220;Haven&#8217;t you heard of their lies?&#8221; &#8220;We could try that new place,&#8221;pointing to the map, with grace.&#8220;My brother went there, Chase,in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[281390,297372,14,297435,245381],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1stplace","tag-297372","tag-creative-writing","tag-love-stinks-writing-contest","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}