{"id":156,"date":"2018-11-16T19:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=156"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:07:02","slug":"carrying-your-ashes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/carrying-your-ashes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"CARRYING YOUR ASHES HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CARRYING YOUR ASHES HOME<\/strong><br \/>\nOld tires are buried in a playground, or tied<br \/>\nby rope to a tree limb over the river<br \/>\njust waiting for a swing. My tires were worn<br \/>\nbut lasted long enough to take you to the vet.<\/p>\n<p>Filled with begonias, some are painted white, jagged teeth<br \/>\nlike the ventricular tachycardia on your EKG.<br \/>\nOthers are tossed into a ditch to collect rain water<br \/>\nand mosquitoes. Piles burn uncontrolled, the tumor<br \/>\npressed on your heart. In August two-a-days, football players<br \/>\nstep through tires snaked out on the ground. <\/p>\n<p>With new tires, I carry you home.<\/p>\n<p>Broken Plate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARRYING YOUR ASHES HOME Old tires are buried in a playground, or tied by rope to a tree limb over the river just waiting for a swing. My tires were worn but lasted long enough to take you to the vet. Filled with begonias, some are painted white, jagged teeth like the ventricular tachycardia on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/carrying-your-ashes-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CARRYING YOUR ASHES HOME<\/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-156","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\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}