{"id":1617,"date":"2008-04-18T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2008-04-18T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:56:40","slug":"300812-mad-hettie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1617","title":{"rendered":"30|08:12 Mad Hettie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ghost beside me shudders and shakes and swears,<\/p>\n<div>clutching her purse in crabbed old claws,<\/div>\n<div>wracked and wrecked with something old and cold and fatal<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m grateful I&#8217;m not permitted to know.<\/div>\n<div>There&#8217;s a tiny something knotted in her hair,<\/div>\n<div>a kink, a snag, a snarled ball trapped in her snakes,<\/div>\n<div>and with a start I realize it&#8217;s a tiny baby bird,<\/div>\n<div>killed before it ever opened its eyes,<\/div>\n<div>the blue marbles on its odd featherless head<\/div>\n<div>as still and sightless as the lady&#8217;s own,<\/div>\n<div>rolled back in her head, placebos, placeholders,<\/div>\n<div>seeing naught now but memories and the future.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ghost beside me shudders and shakes and swears, clutching her purse in crabbed old claws, wracked and wrecked with something old and cold and fatal I&#8217;m grateful I&#8217;m not permitted to know. There&#8217;s a tiny something knotted in her hair, a kink, a snag, a snarled ball trapped in her snakes, and with a [&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-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-q5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}