{"id":70,"date":"2018-11-16T18:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=70"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:29:34","slug":"ethers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/ethers\/","title":{"rendered":"ETHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ETHERS<\/strong><br \/>\nI count of the clicks<br \/>\nof aluminum welds<br \/>\nuntil the cap gives up.<br \/>\nOaken vapors uncoil.<\/p>\n<p>At 14, I started with rum.<br \/>\nLater, bourbon; the smell,<br \/>\nthe currents it formed<br \/>\nwhen mixed with water over rocks.<br \/>\nOne drink would hide me,<br \/>\nnot smart enough, not good enough,<br \/>\nnot enough.<\/p>\n<p>That last night, drink in one hand,<br \/>\nsmoke in the other,<br \/>\nI am sure I was astute,<br \/>\nmaybe even witty.<br \/>\nI stumbled home.<\/p>\n<p>I lay naked on the bathroom floor<br \/>\nall that erudition coming up in waves.<br \/>\nSweat puddles on my skin.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Turkey slides smooth<br \/>\nfrom the bottle like a cobra<br \/>\nfrom the tipped basket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETHERS I count of the clicks of aluminum welds until the cap gives up. Oaken vapors uncoil. At 14, I started with rum. Later, bourbon; the smell, the currents it formed when mixed with water over rocks. One drink would hide me, not smart enough, not good enough, not enough. That last night, drink in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/ethers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETHERS<\/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-70","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\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}