{"id":266,"date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/05\/afterthought\/","title":{"rendered":"afterthought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\nthe skyline yawns pink. <br \/>\norange ice cream clouds drift by. <br \/>\ndusk is when all my tales begin. <\/p>\n<p>I write poems with bleeding ink<br \/>\nthe way a mother sends up<br \/>\na prayer for a damaged daughter &#8211;<br \/>\ndesperately. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a dogeared leaf<br \/>\nout of a yellowed book,<br \/>\nbrittle on the edges,<br \/>\na lot like hope:<br \/>\nweary, blurry, and sarcastic. <\/p>\n<p>my shoes are too tight,<br \/>\nwhich is to say, I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nwant you to walk a mile in them. <br \/>\nif you can help it,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t walk in them at all. <\/p>\n<p>but, pretty boy, with your<br \/>\ncinnamon eyes, <br \/>\nyou make me smile. <br \/>\nI&#8217;ll let you walk in step<br \/>\nwith me. <\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the skyline yawns pink.   orange ice cream clouds drift by.   dusk is when all my tales begin.     I write poems with bleeding ink  the way a mother sends up  a prayer for a damaged daughter &#8211;  desperately.     I&#8217;m a dogeared leaf  out of a yellowe&#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\/266"}],"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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}