{"id":212,"date":"2018-11-16T19:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:17:17","slug":"red-handled-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/red-handled-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"RED HANDLED KNIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RED HANDLED KNIFE<\/strong><br \/>\nLonger than I have know most of my friends,<br \/>\nI have had that knife. Bought it in Paris.<br \/>\nSmall, plastic handle same length as the blade.<br \/>\nWe were going to have a wine and cheese party<br \/>\nin the room. Be cosmopolitan.<\/p>\n<p>You could take almost anything on the plane<br \/>\nback then, so I packed it in my bag. Since<br \/>\nthen it has followed me to Memphis,<br \/>\nHillsborough, a few camping spots.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, I must have used it<br \/>\nas a screwdriver, bent the blade.<br \/>\nNow it makes a ripple in the cheese.<br \/>\nI cut up hot dogs to hide the greyhound&#8217;s<br \/>\nthyroid medicine. Still pretty sharp,<br \/>\nexcept for those dents.<\/p>\n<p>And me? I don&#8217;t remember the names<br \/>\nof the wine and cheeses. Or if we had bread.<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t recall a single face of the people<br \/>\nI shared it with. Rarely think of Paris,<br \/>\nif at all.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo Bay May 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RED HANDLED KNIFE Longer than I have know most of my friends, I have had that knife. Bought it in Paris. Small, plastic handle same length as the blade. We were going to have a wine and cheese party in the room. Be cosmopolitan. You could take almost anything on the plane back then, so&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/red-handled-knife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RED HANDLED KNIFE<\/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-212","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\/212","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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}