{"id":2552,"date":"2010-11-13T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:20:40","slug":"inliwrimo-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/11\/inliwrimo-13\/","title":{"rendered":"InLiWriMo #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The yak who couldn&#8217;t relax<br \/>\nJust wasn&#8217;t like other yaks<br \/>\nThey chewed, and they brewed,<br \/>\nAnd maintained their good mood<br \/>\nWhile he was stressed out to the max<\/p>\n<p>He dressed in a thong and a toga<br \/>\nHe practised fifteen kinds of yoga<br \/>\nBut where others found peace,<br \/>\nComfort and release,<br \/>\nHe was coiled to strike like a cobra<\/p>\n<p>The yak who couldn&#8217;t relax<br \/>\nCalculated his income tax<br \/>\nBut despite his huge brain<br \/>\nHe could not take the strain<br \/>\nOf the hundreds of thousands of facts<\/p>\n<p>Too nervous for even the flies,<br \/>\nThe yak was sight for sore eyes<br \/>\nSpending days with his books<br \/>\nIgnoring his looks<br \/>\nIn pursuit of a gentle demise<\/p>\n<p>The yak who couldn&#8217;t relax<br \/>\nGave up his mansion for shacks<br \/>\nTook a floor for a bed<br \/>\nAnd the last thing he said<br \/>\nWas just papering over the cracks<\/p>\n<p>He was jumpy and snarky, until<br \/>\nThe doctor, who&#8217;d filled him with pills<br \/>\nPrescribed beta-blockers<br \/>\nWhich worked, but the shocker<br \/>\nThat killed was the size of the bill<\/p>\n<p>Still, he died at peace with the world<br \/>\nHis consciousness free and unfurled<br \/>\nAs he ended his days<br \/>\nHe was heard to say<br \/>\n&#8220;How relaxing!&#8221; as upwards he curled.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ucumari\/448417833\/\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/195\/448417833_62f11bf6bb.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yak who couldn&#8217;t relax Just wasn&#8217;t like other yaks They chewed, and they brewed, And maintained their good mood While he was stressed out to the max He dressed in a thong and a toga He practised fifteen kinds of yoga But where others found peace, Comfort and release, He was coiled to strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[458,488,487],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-limerick","tag-relax","tag-yak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}