{"id":227,"date":"2020-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"staircase-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/15\/staircase-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Staircase stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was sitting on the staircase<br \/>\nto the old setting sun<br \/>\nwhose patchwork rust and frayed edges<br \/>\nasked for a coat of paint. <br \/>\nGrey cement steps stared blankly at<br \/>\nshallow opaque puddles<br \/>\nof almost empty colour cans. <br \/>\nI picked up my best brush<br \/>\nand used every last drop of paint,<br \/>\ntiptoed on borrowed hours. <br \/>\nGrey-green backpack on my shoulder, <br \/>\nas I hurried away, <br \/>\na dribble of paint ran downward<br \/>\nalong midnight black sky. <br \/>\nIt was a dreamy, clear skied night. <br \/>\nHow the stars did twinkle!<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting on the staircase  to the old setting sun  whose patchwork rust and frayed edges  asked for a coat of paint.   Grey cement steps stared blankly at  shallow opaque puddles  of almost empty colour cans.   I picked up my best brush  and use&#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\/227"}],"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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}