{"id":231,"date":"2018-11-16T19:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:22:42","slug":"burying-my-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/burying-my-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying My Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burying My Horse<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s my fault.\u201d<br \/>\nDad\u2019s face, gray with teared eyes.<br \/>\n\u201cBig Red is dead\u201d.<br \/>\nI held onto the counter.<br \/>\nIt is November, I am in the kitchen loading<br \/>\nthe dishwasher with the breakfast plates.<br \/>\nMust be about 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Shannon will use his bulldozer<br \/>\nto dig the hole.\u201d Dad won\u2019t let me go<br \/>\nuntil it is dug. He doesn\u2019t want me<br \/>\nto see the body taken back to the site.<br \/>\nI imagine my horse on his side,<br \/>\nlegs stuck straight out,<br \/>\na chain around him,<br \/>\nthe \u2018dozer dragging him.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel fumes and smell of freshly<br \/>\nscraped earth,<br \/>\na cold body rests<br \/>\non the naked ground.<\/p>\n<p>Dirt covers Big Red. <\/p>\n<p>Avalon Literary Review<br \/>\n9\/14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burying My Horse \u201cIt\u2019s my fault.\u201d Dad\u2019s face, gray with teared eyes. \u201cBig Red is dead\u201d. I held onto the counter. It is November, I am in the kitchen loading the dishwasher with the breakfast plates. Must be about 12. \u201cMr. Shannon will use his bulldozer to dig the hole.\u201d Dad won\u2019t let me go&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/burying-my-horse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burying My Horse<\/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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}