{"id":1432,"date":"2013-10-17T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2014-09-01T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:45:00","slug":"such-beauty-in-one-mans-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2013\/10\/17\/such-beauty-in-one-mans-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"SUCH BEAUTY IN ONE MAN&#8217;S LAUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>by\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=daizjha&amp;submit.x=-1129&amp;submit.y=-337\" target=\"_blank\">DAIZJHA<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>He\u2019s laughing at the boy who spreads ketchup on his golden chicken.<br \/>\nHis laughter\u2019s thick and lofty, filling the room<br \/>\nwith its sound, drawing the family\u2019s attention<br \/>\nto the boy. The children join in the laughter,<br \/>\nfor this tradition of eating chicken is foreign<br \/>\nand new. Smells of divine meats and vegetables<br \/>\nfill the home, overpowering this laughter.<br \/>\nAgain it\u2019s silent and the clang and cling<br \/>\nof silverware resumes.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s stuck his gaze on the boy as he eats his<br \/>\nmeal and chuckles.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s cold yet warm.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s the hoe no the pickaxe in the shed.<br \/>\nHis light\u2019s dim and suspended in darkness.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s the beginning of the hurricane, the instant from calm to danger.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s a black onyx wrapped in silk and grunge.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s the canyon you wonder where it ends, where it begins.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s midnight where everything is hushed and silent but the people know<br \/>\nthere are secrets in the dark.<br \/>\nBut somehow this boy of weird taste brings out a genuine laugh,<br \/>\na joyous smile.<br \/>\nA remarkable night.<br \/>\nIt has been a while since he\u2019s laughed this laugh<br \/>\ncovered in dust and cobwebs from the months and years<br \/>\nof non-use. The family knows<br \/>\nthis and they can only be grateful for<br \/>\nthat night laughter has never struck that man<br \/>\nso hard he fell from his chair<br \/>\nholding that tiny belly. That night ended<br \/>\nwith such beauty in one man\u2019s laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=daizjha&amp;submit.x=-1129&amp;submit.y=-337\" target=\"_blank\">DAIZJHA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s laughing at the boy who spreads ketchup on his golden chicken.<br \/> His laughter\u2019s thick and lofty, filling the room<br \/> with its sound, drawing the family\u2019s attention<br \/> to the boy. The children join in the laughter,<br \/> for this tradition of eating chicken is foreign<br \/> and new. Smells [&#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":[79485],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-daizjha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}