{"id":282,"date":"2022-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/16\/october\/","title":{"rendered":"October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>October, <br \/>\nyou&#8217;re the backyard harvest<br \/>\nof homegrown goodbyes,<br \/>\npacked into cardboard<br \/>\nboxes with holes in them,<br \/>\nlike pumpkins from the patch.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the sleepy sunbeam<br \/>\nthat throws longer shadows<br \/>\non questions that were dug up<br \/>\nfrom their graves<br \/>\nas the sun hits the horizon.<br \/>\nOctober,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re the diary I&#8217;ll burn<br \/>\nat my funeral because<br \/>\nit houses too much honesty-<br \/>\nbone melting rain and <br \/>\npressed fall leaves from when<br \/>\nheartbeats throbbed iridescent blue.<br \/>\nOrange was my favourite<br \/>\ncolour for decades before<br \/>\nI realised that it is <br \/>\nthe colour of goodbyes too.<\/p>\n<p>October,<br \/>\nwhy didn&#8217;t you tell me sooner?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October,   you&#8217;re the backyard harvest  of homegrown goodbyes,  packed into cardboard  boxes with holes in them,  like pumpkins from the patch.  You&#8217;re the sleepy sunbeam  that throws longer shadows  on questions that were dug up  from their graves&#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\/282"}],"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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}