{"id":272,"date":"2018-11-16T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=272"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:31:46","slug":"memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Memories<\/strong><br \/>\nThey peer at me from the bureau;<br \/>\nsit on the box topped with two small<br \/>\nSeiko watches and wedding rings.  <\/p>\n<p>They skulk behind me: walking the dog<br \/>\nor in the quiet moment when the sun is setting.<br \/>\nBehind the framed pictures, they cry with me.<\/p>\n<p>They grab a taste of the applesauce cakes<br \/>\nas they cool on the old racks. They clamber onto my shoulder<br \/>\nwhen looking at mountains or changing the car\u2019s oil.<\/p>\n<p>Ambushed, I thank that walnut box<br \/>\nfor holding them secure.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston Literary Magazine<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSept. 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories They peer at me from the bureau; sit on the box topped with two small Seiko watches and wedding rings. They skulk behind me: walking the dog or in the quiet moment when the sun is setting. Behind the framed pictures, they cry with me. They grab a taste of the applesauce cakes as&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/memories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memories<\/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-272","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\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}