{"id":172,"date":"2018-11-16T19:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=172"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:09:40","slug":"walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/walls\/","title":{"rendered":"WALLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WALLS<\/strong><br \/>\nI tear off the wallpaper, leaving<br \/>\nan old layer of paint. Spreading spackle<br \/>\nlike frosting, I fill in the defects.<br \/>\nWhen I sand, gray dust cakes my hair<br \/>\nand sifts through the house.<\/p>\n<p>Time to paint.<br \/>\nI dip the trim brush<br \/>\ninto Blue Gauze<br \/>\nand tint the molding.<\/p>\n<p>Filling the bristles<br \/>\nwith Linen White, I hide<br \/>\nthe lime green walls.<br \/>\nThe last coat is on,<br \/>\nthe vanity in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to change my own walls,<br \/>\nthe ones that are black and white,<br \/>\nthat keep you out. I&#8217;d paint them<br \/>\nin pastels, Brushed Silver<br \/>\nwith Ruby Dusk trim.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;d put in a door<br \/>\nto let you in.<\/p>\n<p>Aries One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALLS I tear off the wallpaper, leaving an old layer of paint. Spreading spackle like frosting, I fill in the defects. When I sand, gray dust cakes my hair and sifts through the house. Time to paint. I dip the trim brush into Blue Gauze and tint the molding. Filling the bristles with Linen White,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/walls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WALLS<\/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-172","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\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}