{"id":1173,"date":"2007-07-27T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2007-07-27T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T06:55:00","slug":"1173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Doug J. Koonz Jr., Age 43, Certified Accountant and Father of Three, Pushes a Complete Stranger Into the Path of an Oncoming Train<\/span><\/p>\n<p>downtown in the summer swelter<br \/>men in black suits<br \/>impropriety in shade and dress<br \/>jagged-eyed pushers with<br \/>mouths full of teeth<br \/>braking for the scent of submission<\/p>\n<p>the subways packed by sundown<br \/>back alley whispers<br \/>smells that invade and pry away good senses<br \/>auras like paint swirling down rusted drains<\/p>\n<p>lost.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">trying to get out is hard work<\/span><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">you may as well stay<\/span><br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">you may as well stay<\/span><\/p>\n<p>he threw his life away<br \/>all his eggs in someone else\u2019s basket<br \/>said to himself<br \/>dreams are but an immaculate memory<br \/>a consolation for lack of inertia<\/p>\n<p>a voice inside interrupted,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">do something. before you disappear<\/span><\/p>\n<p>the urgency was palpable.<\/p>\n<p>his mother always said<br \/>he never was one who could make his own decisions<\/p>\n<p>until the tracks called out to him<br \/><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">begged<\/span><br \/>widening its gaping mouth of insolent need<br \/>his own eyes reflecting the only answer he knew<\/p>\n<p>who was he not to be generous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug J. Koonz Jr., Age 43, Certified Accountant and Father of Three, Pushes a Complete Stranger Into the Path of an Oncoming Train downtown in the summer sweltermen in black suitsimpropriety in shade and dressjagged-eyed pushers withmouths full of teethbraking for the scent of submission the subways packed by sundownback alley whisperssmells that invade and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-1173","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}