{"id":1356,"date":"2007-01-26T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2007-01-26T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:47:54","slug":"vestments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1356","title":{"rendered":"Vestments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, love, is this your soul<br \/>\nthat you leave so casually on the armoire,<br \/>\ndraped over the edge like a soiled skirt<br \/>\nwaiting so long for an impossible rinse?<br \/>\nIs this your past crumpled on the floor,<br \/>\na hope and a promise balled-up stockings,<br \/>\nbest intentions kicked to the corner<br \/>\nblike threadbare tattered overworn shoes?<br \/>\nIf these best things are now shed,<br \/>\nwhat new threads have you adorned?<br \/>\nA wardrobe of lies and darker things,<br \/>\nof compromises and acceptances and descents,<br \/>\nnew low-cut dresses and slutty garters,<br \/>\ncrotchless panties and knee-high boots,<br \/>\ncrisp leather corsets and studded collars,<br \/>\nbelts designed to receive your rent?<br \/>\nAre these new clothes the best you could do,<br \/>\nor perhaps these were the outfits<br \/>\nyou secretly dreamt of as a girl,<br \/>\nwhile trapped seething in your pretty bows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, love, is this your soul that you leave so casually on the armoire, draped over the edge like a soiled skirt waiting so long for an impossible rinse? Is this your past crumpled on the floor, a hope and a promise balled-up stockings, best intentions kicked to the corner blike threadbare tattered overworn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-lS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}