{"id":1046,"date":"2016-11-20T15:39:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2016-11-20T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:39:45","slug":"in-the-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/20\/in-the-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"in the afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>house men<br \/>\nsingle<br \/>\nblurry eyed<br \/>\nand with skin<br \/>\na shade too pale<br \/>\nwalk<br \/>\nin dirty socks<br \/>\nfrom an uneven bed<\/p>\n<p>the clocks are all wrong<br \/>\nthe counters are all stained<br \/>\nand there\u2019s a stack of unopened mail<br \/>\nwaiting to be read<\/p>\n<p>dogs and cats sleep together<br \/>\nas the laundry piles up<br \/>\nand the windows have that ghosting film<\/p>\n<p>half eaten meals<br \/>\nlitter the fridge<br \/>\nand a wide assortment<br \/>\nof beer bottle caps<br \/>\nhide in the strangest of places<\/p>\n<p>and somehow<br \/>\nthat ashtray you swore you\u2019d never use<br \/>\nis filled to the brim<\/p>\n<p>books are dusty<br \/>\nand there\u2019s cob webs<br \/>\nin places you wouldn\u2019t think to check<\/p>\n<p>wandering from end to end<br \/>\nthe minutes turn to hours<br \/>\nstretching<br \/>\ncounter-clockwise<br \/>\nthey are<br \/>\ncleaning and<br \/>\ndreaming<br \/>\nof a better day<\/p>\n<p>the gods have forsaken them<\/p>\n<p>flush<br \/>\nneed for a mad rush<\/p>\n<p>and you know<br \/>\nnothing motivates a man more<br \/>\nthan the promise of pussy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160-in-the-afternoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-escutcheon-logo wp-image-1051\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160-in-the-afternoon-146x200.jpg\" alt=\"160-in-the-afternoon\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160-in-the-afternoon-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160-in-the-afternoon-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160-in-the-afternoon.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}