{"id":261,"date":"2021-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"to-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/to-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"To let go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I stranded my poems on storefronts <br \/>\nand on deadend streets in crisscrossed<br \/>\nlanes of the maze I called my city.<br \/>\nThey looked to me like three year old boys<br \/>\nlost at the fair in the country heat,<br \/>\nsilver ribbons dancing in their eyes<br \/>\nthree seconds before the glaciers <br \/>\nbreak and feed the rivers down their cheeks.<br \/>\nI left them like Norfolk Terriers<br \/>\nkept for adoption at the pound<br \/>\nbecause the owner was ill and friendless<br \/>\nbut hugged his dogs with shaking hands<br \/>\non arthritic knees, willing them to live. \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stranded my poems on storefronts   and on deadend streets in crisscrossed  lanes of the maze I called my city.  They looked to me like three year old boys  lost at the fair in the country heat,  silver ribbons dancing in their eyes  three seconds b&#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\/261"}],"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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}