{"id":239,"date":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"a-fool-in-a-straitjacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/a-fool-in-a-straitjacket\/","title":{"rendered":"A fool in a straitjacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ma, it rained so much today<br \/>\nthat there were tiny puddles<br \/>\nin the street that reminded <br \/>\nme of paper boats and you. <br \/>\nI was five and my boat sank<br \/>\nso you took my hands in your<br \/>\npalms and made another one. <br \/>\nIt was very cloudy and cold<br \/>\nbut your hands were very warm. <\/p>\n<p>Like an elegant grown up<br \/>\nI made myself some tea,<br \/>\nlemony and sugar free. <br \/>\nI could hear you laugh and say<br \/>\nhot chocolate with cinnamon<br \/>\nwould have been a better choice. <br \/>\nThe truth is, my fridge broke down<br \/>\nand the milk curdled last night. <br \/>\nHot chocolate is still the best. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the ready made meals,<br \/>\nthe dishes keep piling up. <br \/>\nI tried to turn that mountain<br \/>\ninto a molehill, but I<br \/>\nforgot about the laundry<br \/>\ndrying outside. It&#8217;s drenched now. <br \/>\nHow many time turners did <br \/>\nyou use? Chores got done so well. <\/p>\n<p>A headache crept up today<br \/>\nas I was making a list <br \/>\nof groceries for this week. <br \/>\nIt made me think of your hot<br \/>\nrice, steaming gravy and crisps <br \/>\ncooked with care over the stove<br \/>\non dark, monsoon afternoons. <br \/>\nDid your back ache as you stood<br \/>\nthere for hours, day after day? <\/p>\n<p>Words die in my throat when I<br \/>\nreturn your calls with tragic<br \/>\nmonosyllabic replies. <br \/>\nLater, like a fool in a<br \/>\nstraitjacket I simmer in<br \/>\nburning questions and choked sobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma, it rained so much today  that there were tiny puddles  in the street that reminded   me of paper boats and you.   I was five and my boat sank  so you took my hands in your  palms and made another one.   It was very cloudy and cold  but your hands&#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\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}