{"id":1254,"date":"2024-02-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:01:11","slug":"love-stinks-and-so-does-this-poem-by-echo-c-truly-2024-love-stinks-writing-contest-1st-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2024\/02\/14\/love-stinks-and-so-does-this-poem-by-echo-c-truly-2024-love-stinks-writing-contest-1st-place\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Love Stinks \u2013 and so does this Poem&#8221; by Echo C. Truly (2024 Love Stinks Writing Contest: 1st Place)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My adoration is like hot trash<br>The gunk you find in your kitchen grease trap<br>Mine affection is milk, forgotten in the sun<br>Sourdough starter way overdone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or perhaps the feelings I bare<br>Have me far worse for wear<br>More akin to blue cheese and burnt hair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These butterflies \u2013 they\u2019re really just flies<br>Swarming a dumpster and the person inside<br>My fantasies of you are like rotting meat<br>Or Aiden Hutchinson\u2019s post-game feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it\u2019s finally been enough<br>Smelling this is just too much<br>Being alone isn\u2019t quite like a rose,<br>But I\u2019ll take the bath with its garden hose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I\u2019m free of all your stink,<br>There might be room for me to think<br>Then I wouldn\u2019t write more garbage like this,<br>Because let\u2019s face it, these words are sh**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My adoration is like hot trash<br \/>\nThe gunk you find in your kitchen grease trap<br \/>\nMine affection is milk, forgotten in the sun<br \/>\nSourdough starter way overdone<\/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":[281390,332659,14,297435,245381],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1stplace","tag-332659","tag-creative-writing","tag-love-stinks-writing-contest","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","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=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}