{"id":3710,"date":"2017-08-05T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2017-07-23T20:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T01:54:22","slug":"todd-mercer-skewering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3710","title":{"rendered":"Todd Mercer &#8220;Skewering&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Todd Mercer<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Skewering<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cStab me once, shame on you\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nsays my shrink-friend, voting for divorce<br \/>\nover patching up, while we grill a ton of meat<br \/>\nfor his umpteen teenage offspring,<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026fewer punctures = better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd Mercer<\/strong><em> coined the popular culture term \u201chigh-tracked\u201d (becoming side-tracked from one\u2019s stream of thought due to being high) and wrote a digital chapbook, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.righthandpointing.net\/todd-mercer-home\">Life-wish Maintenance<\/a><em>, which appears at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/righthandpointing.net\">Right Hand Pointing<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Mercer Skewering \u201cStab me once, shame on you\u2026\u201d says my shrink-friend, voting for divorce over patching up, while we grill a ton of meat for his umpteen teenage offspring, \u201c\u2026fewer punctures = better.\u201d Todd Mercer coined the popular culture term \u201chigh-tracked\u201d (becoming side-tracked from one\u2019s stream of thought due to being high) and wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[44],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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