{"id":256,"date":"2021-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"home-as-per-the-footnotes-you-didnt-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/home-as-per-the-footnotes-you-didnt-read\/","title":{"rendered":"home, as per the footnotes you didn&#8217;t read"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>home clung to me like loose clothes<br \/>\nand hung in clouds that followed<br \/>\nme up the stairs and hovered <br \/>\nover my bed like mercurial sighs<br \/>\nwhile I melted into the night. <\/p>\n<p>home was a shortness of breath<br \/>\nand a puddle of guilt\u2013<br \/>\nstale corn flakes and spilled milk.<br \/>\nit was outstretched arms grasping rope<br \/>\nto swing away to the moon. <\/p>\n<p>I let the clouds tread lightly <br \/>\ntill they lost weight as I<br \/>\nwrung them dry and watched them curl <br \/>\nup into leaves that I steeped <br \/>\nin my evening cup of tea. <\/p>\n<p>I sipped the tea slowly, in <br \/>\norder to not scorch the tongue,<br \/>\nand added two sugars for effect. <br \/>\nit&#8217;s the only way in which <br \/>\nthe thought of home <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; warmed me up inside. \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>home clung to me like loose clothes  and hung in clouds that followed  me up the stairs and hovered   over my bed like mercurial sighs  while I melted into the night.     home was a shortness of breath  and a puddle of guilt\u2013  stale corn flakes and s&#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\/256"}],"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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}