{"id":984,"date":"2011-06-04T04:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=984"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:48:11","slug":"consider-this-by-henry-l-mortimer-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/consider-this-by-henry-l-mortimer-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider This by Henry L. Mortimer Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/henrymortimer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-985 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"henrymortimer\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/henrymortimer-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/henrymortimer-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/henrymortimer-956x1024.jpg 956w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/henrymortimer.jpg 1732w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Consider This<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Henry L. Mortimer Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Some animal, some low<br \/>\nbeast<br \/>\nhas done me a favor:<br \/>\nit<br \/>\ntipped over the trash<br \/>\ncan<br \/>\nin the alley early this morning,<br \/>\nscattering<br \/>\nthe contents, everything &#8212;<br \/>\nbrown<br \/>\nbanana peels, wads of Kleenex,<br \/>\nopen<br \/>\nsoiled diapers, moldy carrots,<br \/>\nchicken<br \/>\nbones and greasy aluminum foil,<br \/>\ngum,<br \/>\ndental floss, a Hershey&#8217;s wrapper &#8212;<br \/>\nso that<br \/>\nI must pick up each piece<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nconsider this too comprises<br \/>\nmy life.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Mortimer lives in Baltimore, Md. His poems have appeared in print and online publications. He writes <a href=\"http:\/\/scribbleskiff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scribbleskiff.com<\/a>, an occasional blog about books, music, and other distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider This by Henry L. Mortimer Jr. Some animal, some low beast has done me a favor: it tipped over the trash can in the alley early this morning, scattering the contents, everything &#8212; brown banana peels, wads of Kleenex, open soiled diapers, moldy carrots, chicken bones and greasy aluminum foil, gum, dental floss, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}