{"id":193,"date":"2025-04-25T07:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:45:42","slug":"napowrimo-2025-day-25-prophylactic-tanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/25\/napowrimo-2025-day-25-prophylactic-tanka\/","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 25: Prophylactic Tanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250425-giteau-prophylactic-tanka.jpg\" alt=\"text in post body\" class=\"wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250425-giteau-prophylactic-tanka.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250425-giteau-prophylactic-tanka-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250425-giteau-prophylactic-tanka-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prophylactic Tanka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;ll have to die someday or so I&#8217;m told, but I was also told to say my prayers &amp; put 10% in the bank &amp; floss to save my soul &amp; my old age &amp; my teeth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; I still have nearly all my teeth (two crowns) &amp; my soul doesn&#8217;t hurt much mostly, just a dull ache thruout the workday &amp; a pain that shoots thru my astral guts when I read the news or sit thru a wedding or an open mic,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; you know I never planned to have an old age but with my luck I probably will, full of remorse &amp; overdraft fees &amp; 2nd-hand dentures &amp; no one around,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; as I sit on the balcony &amp; watch cars &amp; bugs &amp; bats &amp; falling stars that turn into airplanes, as I smell burning oil &amp; lilacs &amp; listen to a muffler drag on the street &amp; my knees crack,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I really should do something about my mortality, but the cat &amp; I like things as they are as they should be as they were &amp; last night I slept with my eyes closed, so I guess I&#8217;m ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Sturgis Giteau<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>4\/25\/25<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 25)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 25: &#8220;Prophylactic Tanka&#8221; by Sturgis Giteau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-napowrimo-2025","category-poetry","tag-napowrimo","tag-napowrimo-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}