{"id":1611,"date":"2008-04-06T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2008-04-06T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T17:21:48","slug":"300805-boom-baby-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1611","title":{"rendered":"30|08:05 Boom Baby Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Like a rock concert in the middle of winter,<\/div>\n<div>Like leather pants on a man old enough to be your daddy,<\/div>\n<div>Like a convertible in a thunderstorm,<\/div>\n<div>A pop reference still too recent to be retro,<\/div>\n<div>A line from a sitcom nobody ever watched,<\/div>\n<div>This is the way she would walk into the room,<\/div>\n<div>Too cool to be cool,<\/div>\n<div>More heebie-jeebies than CBGB&#8217;s,<\/div>\n<div>Stepping way outside what my little mind could handle,<\/div>\n<div>Refracting the culture of a thousand other places<\/div>\n<div>Through the pretty pretty prism of nineteen, twenty, twenty-one,<\/div>\n<div>Sashaying down the corridor like nobody&#8217;s business,<\/div>\n<div>Standing in the street like nobody&#8217;s daughter,<\/div>\n<div>Dancing in the field like nobody&#8217;s home,<\/div>\n<div>Leaving in her wake a trail of nothing more<\/div>\n<div>Than scattered, heartbroken, bewildered stares.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Late due to veterinary emergencies yesterday.)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a rock concert in the middle of winter, Like leather pants on a man old enough to be your daddy, Like a convertible in a thunderstorm, A pop reference still too recent to be retro, A line from a sitcom nobody ever watched, This is the way she would walk into the room, Too [&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-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-pZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}