{"id":233,"date":"2020-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"stories-in-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/stories-in-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories in the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;d said we would meet at the bench<br \/>\ncoated with green paint in the park, <br \/>\ncount new lines on the other&#8217;s face<br \/>\nwith our masks on, six feet apart. <\/p>\n<p>I waited in my old red keds, <br \/>\ntorn blue jeans and a plain white tee. <br \/>\nAs dusk grew red and sunlight ebbed, <br \/>\nyou&#8217;d probably forgotten me. <\/p>\n<p>Stillness sat like a quiet cat, <br \/>\nlicking its pink paws, near my feet. <br \/>\nStarlings chirped on high branches as<br \/>\nthe lights flickered on down the street. <\/p>\n<p>You crossed out days and crossed out years<br \/>\nsince the day when we should have met,<br \/>\nwhen you&#8217;d waited until your tears<br \/>\ndried up behind burnt cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Flushed winds rushed like the years gone by. <br \/>\nAs blue shadows did turn and twist,<br \/>\na cracked apology, and I<\/p>\n<p>faded into the moonlit mist. <\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d said we would meet at the bench  coated with green paint in the park,   count new lines on the other&#8217;s face  with our masks on, six feet apart.     I waited in my old red keds,   torn blue jeans and a plain white tee.   As dusk grew red and sunl&#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\/233"}],"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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}