{"id":5506,"date":"2016-10-19T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2016-10-19T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:42:50","slug":"flunking-the-turing-test-a-poem-by-becca-menon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/flunking-the-turing-test-a-poem-by-becca-menon\/","title":{"rendered":"Flunking the Turing Test. A Poem by Becca Menon"},"content":{"rendered":"
                           Come on, body, what\u2019s with the chronic wincing<\/strong>\r\n                           We\u2019ve heard these gripes before.\u00a0 What good do they do?<\/strong>\r\n                           Stop whining!\u00a0 And anyhow, who\u2019s in there?\u00a0 Are you<\/strong>\r\n                           Even real, like really the Real Me, the Pain Me \u2013 or Not-Me?<\/strong>\r\n                           Belly, \u201cYou\u2019re hungry!\u201d and \u201cOw!\u201d just aren\u2019t convincing.<\/strong>\r\n                           Ears?\u00a0 Eyes?\u00a0 Hacked or hackneyed\u2026\u00a0 I? think? I\u2019m a Bot-me.<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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Becca Menon<\/span> is an American writer whose largely narrative poetic works, based in myth, fairy tale, folklore and Scripture have been hailed internationally in countries such as Iran, India, Iraq, Canada and the United Kingdom as well as the United States.\u00a0 Some shorter works, essays and translations appear in print and online in publications that include Parnassus<\/u>, Mezzo Cammin<\/u>, Kritya<\/u>, Antiphon<\/u> and others.\u00a0 She is associate editor of Phoenix Rising<\/u>\u00b8 a multilingual sonnet anthology.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 www.BeccaBooks.com.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Come on, body, what\u2019s with the chronic wincing We\u2019ve heard these gripes before.\u00a0 What good do they do? Stop whining!\u00a0 And anyhow, who\u2019s in there?\u00a0 Are you Even real, like really the Real Me, the Pain Me \u2013 or Not-Me? Belly, \u201cYou\u2019re hungry!\u201d and \u201cOw!\u201d just aren\u2019t convincing. Ears?\u00a0 Eyes?\u00a0 Hacked or hackneyed\u2026\u00a0 I? think? … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}