{"id":226,"date":"2020-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"bad-handwriting-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/10\/bad-handwriting-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad handwriting days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As dawn peeks in through the window<br \/>\nin mustard light and misty garb, <br \/>\nthe sleepless night, now old and grey, <br \/>\nan ashen shadow on the walls, <br \/>\nfloats away with the silent breeze. <\/p>\n<p>I am a mere spectator now, <br \/>\nwatching as time withers and wanes. <br \/>\nIn the faint light of early hours<br \/>\nblue thoughts and indigo dreams sigh,<br \/>\nafter a futile night long wait. <\/p>\n<p>You said you&#8217;d save the best for last<br \/>\nand come back to me like bluebirds<br \/>\nfly to their straw nests at sunset, <br \/>\nin brown, abandoned mailboxes<br \/>\non green hilltops with gurgling streams.<\/p>\n<p>Consecutive calendar months<br \/>\nwith dark red crosses marked after<br \/>\nthe time &#8216;tween the night-guard&#8217; s whistle<br \/>\nand the rooster&#8217;s call speak volumes<br \/>\nof cold lies and desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Names are etched on ribcages in<br \/>\nforeign scripts we can&#8217;t understand-<br \/>\npart scribbles, part graffiti art.<br \/>\nHow do you remove needless names<br \/>\nif you cannot tell them apart? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As dawn peeks in through the window  in mustard light and misty garb,   the sleepless night, now old and grey,   an ashen shadow on the walls,   floats away with the silent breeze.     I am a mere spectator now,   watching as time withers and wanes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}