{"id":239,"date":"2018-11-16T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:23:58","slug":"hopscotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/hopscotch\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPSCOTCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOPSCOTCH<\/strong><br \/>\nWho taught me to use chalk to draw the pattern<br \/>\non the pavement, how to use one foot in the single blocks,<br \/>\ntwo in the double and in the circle at the top? <\/p>\n<p>I played while waiting for the bus,<br \/>\npicked out that lucky piece of gravel,<br \/>\nhopped from square to square,<br \/>\nmissed the one with the marker,<br \/>\nno stepping on the lines.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to lean against something<br \/>\njust to put on my pants. I take a walking pole<br \/>\non bird trips to balance on the rocky path,<br \/>\nand to help me get up that slick slope. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t try to hop the pattern<br \/>\nat the playground.<\/p>\n<p>Boston Literary Magazine<br \/>\n9\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOPSCOTCH Who taught me to use chalk to draw the pattern on the pavement, how to use one foot in the single blocks, two in the double and in the circle at the top? I played while waiting for the bus, picked out that lucky piece of gravel, hopped from square to square, missed the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/hopscotch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOPSCOTCH<\/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-239","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\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}