{"id":1297,"date":"2013-03-27T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2013-03-27T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:05:36","slug":"speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2013\/03\/27\/speak\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=paula&amp;submit.x=-1130&amp;submit.y=-337\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PAULA<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>speak to me<br \/>\nwhen the dirt and gravel are<br \/>\ndrowned out<br \/>\nand I can&#8217;t hear the ambulance sirens<br \/>\ntwo blocks away<br \/>\nwailing<br \/>\nfor a chance<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nspeak<br \/>\nto the crackles of a leaf that never<br \/>\nhad a chance<br \/>\nthe drops falling<br \/>\non an aluminum mailbox<br \/>\nthat are a medley in themselves<br \/>\nthe tiles along a fence<br \/>\na paradox of paradise<br \/>\nhome to three cats and<br \/>\na gypsy in a flower pot<br \/>\nwarm crackles<br \/>\nlight up even<br \/>\nthe burnt-out stars<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s footprints are my radio<br \/>\nechoing across a polluted atmosphere<br \/>\nthe booming, the air fronts<br \/>\nwarm and cold alike collide.<br \/>\nopposites attract, and when they meet, they&#8217;re fire<br \/>\nin the sky<br \/>\nsmoke on the horizon<br \/>\nin my mind I can<br \/>\nfeel he soaked socks<br \/>\nclinging to my feet<br \/>\nas I pranced about<br \/>\non my porch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=paula&amp;submit.x=-1130&amp;submit.y=-337\" target=\"_blank\">PAULA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>speak to me<br \/> when the dirt and gravel are<br \/> drowned out<br \/> and I can&#8217;t hear the ambulance sirens<br \/> two blocks away<br \/> wailing<br \/> for a chance<br \/> to be<br \/> speak<br \/> to the crackles of a leaf that never<br \/> had a chance<br \/> the drops [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79493],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-paula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}