{"id":18,"date":"2024-10-09T01:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-04-22T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:16:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book.png 901w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-768x668.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a>This book is 95 percent comedy. The remaining poems are serious in nature. The serious ones are about people who have touched my life. I have not been able to read them in front of people without tearing up.<\/p>\n<p>The funny poems are different story. Some of them have hidden comedy. Some of the jokes you heard in high school may appear in this book. I was and I am always looking for new material.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the odes are based upon a true set of facts that happened to people I know. Some of them could be offensive to certain people. For that, I apologize.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed rewriting and editing these poems. That usually happens two months or so later. By that time I had forgotten what I had written.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to apologize to real poets for referring to my creation as &#8220;poems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is 95 percent comedy. The remaining poems are serious in nature. The serious ones are about people who have touched my life. I have not been able to read them in front of people without tearing up. The funny poems are different story. Some of them have hidden comedy. Some of the jokes<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOME&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/858453\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}