{"id":4055,"date":"2021-10-30T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2021-10-30T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:14:06","slug":"opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/30\/opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s the last saturday<br \/>\nof my favorite month<br \/>\nsitting on my front steps<br \/>\nreading bukowski<br \/>\ni heard a quick crack<br \/>\nand thought it was thunder<br \/>\n(it is quite overcast and wet today)<br \/>\nbut then i realized it was a gunshot<br \/>\nsome poor bastard was hoping to get lucky<br \/>\nhunting season has rolled around again<br \/>\nand everyone is out there<br \/>\njust over the horizon<br \/>\ntrying to make the big score<\/p>\n<p>i should be out there too<br \/>\nwandering, waiting<br \/>\nanticipating the elation<br \/>\nof that fatal moment<br \/>\nbut instead i&#8217;m in here<br \/>\nsitting at this quiet machine<br \/>\ntyping this somber tale<br \/>\nand getting distracted<br \/>\nby my restless cat<br \/>\nrusty guns, and a rusty soul<br \/>\nit takes practice to survive<br \/>\npoetry certainly won&#8217;t fill your belly<br \/>\nbut it will feed your mind<br \/>\nand at this stage in the game<br \/>\nthat seems like a fair trade to me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/556-opening-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4058\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/556-opening-day-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"556-opening-day\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/556-opening-day-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/556-opening-day-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/556-opening-day.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/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-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}