{"id":3730,"date":"2021-06-09T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2021-06-09T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:38:05","slug":"after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/09\/after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"after dinner when the world has calmed down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i can&#8217;t remember<br \/>\nthe last time<br \/>\ni highlighted<br \/>\nfaded prosperity<br \/>\ni sit here<br \/>\nafter dinner<br \/>\non the edge of sunset<br \/>\nwine drunk<br \/>\nin a quiet heaven<br \/>\nand, amused i<br \/>\nlie on the floor<br \/>\nto watch my cats<\/p>\n<p>green almond eyes<br \/>\ngolden naps<br \/>\ncalico curiosity<br \/>\nand majestic indifference<br \/>\nthese four beasts<br \/>\nare better<br \/>\nthan any television show<\/p>\n<p>and so<br \/>\nthe arrow draws slowly back<br \/>\nonly to be<br \/>\npropelled<br \/>\nrapidly forward<br \/>\nand memories mean little<br \/>\nin this land of<br \/>\nharmonic simulation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/527-after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3732\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/527-after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"527-after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/527-after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/527-after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/527-after-dinner-when-the-world-has-calmed-down.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","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=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}