{"id":139,"date":"2018-11-16T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:03:07","slug":"lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOVERS<\/strong><br \/>\nIt starts as a bruise<br \/>\nat the ankle,<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t even know how it happened.<br \/>\nThe wound festers,<br \/>\na break in reddened<br \/>\nskin, a trickle<br \/>\nof pus. Superficial until<\/p>\n<p>a scalpel through the sloughing<br \/>\nlayers exposes<br \/>\ntendon and bone. New dressings hide<br \/>\nthe wound<br \/>\nlike snow covering a rose.<br \/>\nTracks close<br \/>\nat night, only to re-open and drain<br \/>\nin the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cut and bandage, cut<br \/>\nand bandage<br \/>\nbut the foot<br \/>\ncannot be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Evergreen Chronicles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVERS It starts as a bruise at the ankle, you don&#8217;t even know how it happened. The wound festers, a break in reddened skin, a trickle of pus. Superficial until a scalpel through the sloughing layers exposes tendon and bone. New dressings hide the wound like snow covering a rose. Tracks close at night, only&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/lovers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOVERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}