{"id":262,"date":"2021-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"red-oleanders-and-plastic-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/05\/red-oleanders-and-plastic-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"red oleanders and plastic hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I press red oleanders<br \/>\nin between yellowed pages<br \/>\nof a journal bound in black leather<br \/>\nskinned from a frozen heart which had<br \/>\nbegged for a simple eulogy<\/p>\n<p>(and a poison bloom is as good as any). <\/p>\n<p>This circulatory system<br \/>\nhoused more glue than blood<br \/>\nto mend and hold us together<br \/>\ntill your atria and ventricles<br \/>\nturned plastic and glue didn&#8217;t stick<\/p>\n<p>(it dried up around my heart instead). <\/p>\n<p>Sorrow drips through IV tubes<br \/>\ndribbling into peripheral veins<br \/>\njust enough to not overflow <br \/>\ninto a pen, and onto a page;<br \/>\nno wonder my journal is blank. <\/p>\n<p>(To be a writer then, should I crash and burn?)<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I press red oleanders  in between yellowed pages  of a journal bound in black leather  skinned from a frozen heart which had  begged for a simple eulogy    (and a poison bloom is as good as any).     This circulatory system  housed more glue than blo&#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\/262"}],"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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}