{"id":298,"date":"2018-11-16T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=298"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:36:32","slug":"under-the-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/under-the-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Under the Bed<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I was young,<br \/>\nmonsters lived<br \/>\nunder my bed<br \/>\nor in my closet<br \/>\nwaiting<br \/>\nuntil dark<br \/>\nto whisper<br \/>\nmy name.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, they hide<br \/>\ndeep in an unmapped<br \/>\npart of my brain.<br \/>\nOr maybe in that bourbon<br \/>\nin the freezer waiting<br \/>\nto be poured.  They call<br \/>\nmy name at night.<br \/>\nIn the morning, I hold<br \/>\nthem at bay<br \/>\nuntil it&#8217;s after noon<br \/>\nand the bottle is gone.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSLAB 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Bed When I was young, monsters lived under my bed or in my closet waiting until dark to whisper my name. Now, they hide deep in an unmapped part of my brain. Or maybe in that bourbon in the freezer waiting to be poured. They call my name at night. In the morning,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/under-the-bed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under the Bed<\/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-298","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\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}