{"id":870,"date":"2024-02-16T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:15:49","slug":"take-a-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"take a bow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">How lonely on the sidelines of\na sideshow when the big top\ncomes tumbling down in a\njumper with a name tag\n\n<em>Hello, my pronouns!<\/em>\n\nSettling 900,000 with a new\nsuit of concrete beneath a\ndrowning flood of\nthree million,\n\na poisonous flux\n\nwashing through the\nblood of a keyhole shaped\nlike a mockingbird coiled\nabout by a rattlesnake,\nbeak like a bayonet\npiercing the womb\nof a blind hag,\n\nstumbling\n\nover a line\ndrawn in\nbarren soil,\ncenter stage\nin a sideshow,\n\nthe audience\ngasps\n\nin profile,\nin shadow,\nin a whisper\n\nas the curtain\nfalls, let's\n\ntake a bow,\ntogether,\n\none last time.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>February 1, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How lonely on the sidelines of a sideshow when the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=870\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">take a bow<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,2],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-47","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}