{"id":295,"date":"2024-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"shelved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/shelved\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am a cabinet- <br \/>\nlight brown shelves hidden<br \/>\nfrom view (read &#8216;you&#8217;)<br \/>\nbecause I house a heart<br \/>\nthat beats too fast<br \/>\nand too loudly for a body <br \/>\nas small as mine.<br \/>\n(If only anxiety were poetry).<\/p>\n<p>Bits of onion pink lint<br \/>\nand a hint of mothballs<br \/>\nstay buried in the third drawer. <br \/>\nYes, that is jammed shut <br \/>\nbecause therapy <br \/>\nis expensive, which is to say, <br \/>\nmy grief hides there<br \/>\n(and I let it suffocate).<\/p>\n<p>Let me dust the shelves,<br \/>\nclear the clutter<br \/>\n(mostly, into recycling)<br \/>\nand gather the guts<br \/>\nto display the colour,<br \/>\nthrough glass panes instead<br \/>\nof wooden doors.<br \/>\nThen, I&#8217;ll invite you in.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a cabinet-   light brown shelves hidden  from view (read &#8216;you&#8217;)  because I house a heart  that beats too fast  and too loudly for a body   as small as mine.  (If only anxiety were poetry).    Bits of onion pink lint  and a hint of mothballs  sta&#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\/295"}],"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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}