{"id":227,"date":"2018-11-16T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=227"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:20:10","slug":"burbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/burbon\/","title":{"rendered":"BURBON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BURBON<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is late afternoon and I have a coke and bourbon over ice in hand.<br \/>\nButter is melting and the popcorn blossoms from dry kernels.br><br \/>\nCarefully, I fill the glass to the proper line, add ice, then coke.<br \/>\nI wait for the bubbles to deflate, add more soda if needed<\/p>\n<p>Try to watch the report on the legislature but they are all liars and cheats.<br \/>\nI flip over to the Food Network and watch chefs on Chopped.<\/p>\n<p>All day, I dug a hole, deep and dark, and fell in. That first swallow<br \/>\ngoes down so smooth, the hole beings to fill and I climb up and almost out.<\/p>\n<p>No matter that the drink will clamp my brain in a vice, a knife stab my eye,<br \/>\nfor now, I will enjoy the oaken liquor going down slow.<\/p>\n<p>Ghazel Pagge<br \/>\nDecember 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURBON It is late afternoon and I have a coke and bourbon over ice in hand. Butter is melting and the popcorn blossoms from dry kernels.br> Carefully, I fill the glass to the proper line, add ice, then coke. I wait for the bubbles to deflate, add more soda if needed Try to watch the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/burbon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BURBON<\/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-227","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\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}