{"id":1616,"date":"2008-04-18T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2008-04-18T10:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:48:41","slug":"300811-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1616","title":{"rendered":"30|08:11 MBTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longing for release and it&#8217;s not even Wednesday,<\/p>\n<div>I close my eyes and blink to better coordinates,<\/div>\n<div>folding myself through a tesseract and squeezing through<\/div>\n<div>the tiniest sliver of an escape clause,<\/div>\n<div>I renege on this weather,<\/div>\n<div>I reject the contract that keeps April cold,<\/div>\n<div>I turn my back on the bullshit compliance<\/div>\n<div>that maintains this ridiculous hegemony &#8211;<\/div>\n<div>I stand in this subterranean expanse,<\/div>\n<div>leaning heavily against a squat, tattered column<\/div>\n<div>and spluttering in these failing fluorescents,<\/div>\n<div>I shift from foot to foot, I curse, I sweat,<\/div>\n<div>I swallow my frustrations, no good, no good,<\/div>\n<div>my feet scuff the concrete and my teeth grind to razor points,<\/div>\n<div>honing calcium into furious fangs,<\/div>\n<div>with each passing minute I devolve, more feral,<\/div>\n<div>my hair growing long and my nails unsheathing sharp from quicks,<\/div>\n<div>I am this beast that prowls beneath Harvard Square,<\/div>\n<div>a minotaur&#8217;s path worn deep into ragged bricks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longing for release and it&#8217;s not even Wednesday, I close my eyes and blink to better coordinates, folding myself through a tesseract and squeezing through the tiniest sliver of an escape clause, I renege on this weather, I reject the contract that keeps April cold, I turn my back on the bullshit compliance that maintains [&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-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-q4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}