{"id":178,"date":"2018-11-16T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=178"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:10:47","slug":"solitare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/solitare\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLITARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SOLITARE<\/strong><br \/>\nI play the three I know: Free Cell, Spider,<br \/>\nand plain old Klondike to kill time,<br \/>\nto clear my mind between re-writes,<br \/>\nescape life.<\/p>\n<p>On the carpet, as close<br \/>\nas he can get, lies my dog.<br \/>\nWhen a deuce tops the trey,<br \/>\nfollowed by the ace,<br \/>\na little ping from the computer<br \/>\nrewards my success. <\/p>\n<p>Bull&#8217;s tail thumps on the floor.<br \/>\nPing, thump, ping, thump,<br \/>\nhe applauds the card played.<\/p>\n<p>When I tell him that he&#8217;ll wear his tail out,<br \/>\nthe thumps come faster and faster.<br \/>\nping&#038;thump&#038;ping&#038;thump&#038;ping<\/p>\n<p>I play one more game of each.<\/p>\n<p>Avalon Literary Review<br \/>\n2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOLITARE I play the three I know: Free Cell, Spider, and plain old Klondike to kill time, to clear my mind between re-writes, escape life. On the carpet, as close as he can get, lies my dog. When a deuce tops the trey, followed by the ace, a little ping from the computer rewards my&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/solitare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOLITARE<\/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-178","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\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}