{"id":252,"date":"2021-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"greyscale-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/greyscale-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Greyscale Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The sirens don&#8217;t stop wailing<br \/>\nin harmony with humans<br \/>\nas fatigue flames down the streets, <br \/>\nred and raw and indigo;<br \/>\nan inferno where faces<br \/>\nI know are now folks I knew,<br \/>\neven though we were strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Ten long years ago I held<br \/>\na dying magpie robin <br \/>\nwith hands that felt like hammers, <br \/>\nand a chest that felt like bones<br \/>\nof a small black and white bird, <br \/>\nhollow beneath all the shine. <br \/>\nStrong, wispy grey tendrils choked<br \/>\nmy throat for a week after. <br \/>\nA lit candle, a dug grave<br \/>\nwere mere motions I&#8217;d hoped would<br \/>\nheal her powerful wings to<br \/>\nfly away into blue skies. <\/p>\n<p>I dreamt about her last night<br \/>\ntill I was awoken by<br \/>\nambulance wails at midnight. <br \/>\nWhen two thousand and twenty <br \/>\ntechnicoloured sheep failed, <br \/>\nthe cracked window panes brought in<br \/>\na mild ray of cold sunlight. <br \/>\nIn the greyscale dreams, the bird<br \/>\nflapped her wings and flew away. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sirens don&#8217;t stop wailing  in harmony with humans  as fatigue flames down the streets,   red and raw and indigo;  an inferno where faces  I know are now folks I knew,  even though we were strangers.    Ten long years ago I held  a dying magpie ro&#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\/252"}],"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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}