{"id":6963,"date":"2022-08-01T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2022-07-09T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T15:51:42","slug":"todd-mercer-modest-aspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6963","title":{"rendered":"Todd Mercer &#8220;Modest Aspirations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Todd Mercer<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Modest Aspirations<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>My friend the guitarist<br \/>\nbrought over an album called<br \/>\n\u201cWe Were Dead<br \/>\nBefore the Ship Even Sank,\u201d<br \/>\nso we taught ourselves<br \/>\nhooks and solos like those<br \/>\nuntil the wee hours,<br \/>\nplanning the quick rise<br \/>\nof a band we\u2019d form<br \/>\nand later split from<br \/>\nover creative visions<br \/>\nand a strange shortage<br \/>\nof decent weed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Todd Mercer<\/strong><\/span> <em>of the Grand Rapids and \u201cUp North\u201d areas wishes we&#8217;d all speak of ourselves in the third person more often.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Mercer Modest Aspirations My friend the guitarist brought over an album called \u201cWe Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank,\u201d so we taught ourselves hooks and solos like those until the wee hours, planning the quick rise of a band we\u2019d form and later split from over creative visions and a strange shortage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"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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