{"id":446,"date":"2004-08-31T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2004-08-31T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T03:03:00","slug":"446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"109400975944156306\"><span class=\"post\"><strong>for a beautiful person<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><em>and i felt the echo in the specks of your eyes<\/em><br \/><em>the last traces of her still chilling in your own private spaces<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>into an annotated tableau<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>you <\/em><br \/><em>thinner than you would like to remember<\/em><br \/><em>chipped around the edges<\/em><br \/><em>but still<\/em><br \/><em>mama&#8217;s favorite warrior<\/em><br \/><em>sayin&#8217; to no one in particular<\/em><br \/><em>(but everyone in particular)<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>&#8216;you got me so sick with your sadness<\/em><br \/><em>i tell ya<\/em><br \/><em>it must&#8217;ve been raining the day you were born&#8217;<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>(but not really meaning it this time)<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>the warm air curling around your words<\/em><br \/><em>each soft curve upon hard angle<\/em><br \/><em>(like a woman&#8217;s defiant body when she&#8217;s angry)<\/em><br \/><em>swallowed by a dark hypnotic empty<\/em><br \/><em>until i <\/em><em>couldn&#8217;t remember if they existed at all<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and a distant train whistle<\/em><br \/><em>notes trailing behind a timid fingernail <\/em><br \/><em>drawn<\/em> <em>through a widening leadened wake<\/em><br \/><em>signaled another cross-country freight <\/em><br \/><em>rumbling <\/em><br \/><em>deeper into the night.<\/em> <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for a beautiful personand i felt the echo in the specks of your eyesthe last traces of her still chilling in your own private spacesinto an annotated tableauyou thinner than you would like to rememberchipped around the edgesbut stillmama&#8217;s favorite warriorsayin&#8217; to no one in particular(but everyone in particular)&#8216;you got me so sick with your [&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-446","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-446","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}