{"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\u00a0DAIZJHA He\u2019s laughing at the boy who spreads ketchup on his golden chicken. His laughter\u2019s thick and lofty, filling the room with its sound, drawing the family\u2019s attention to the boy. The children join in the laughter, for this tradition of eating chicken is foreign and new. Smells of divine meats and vegetables fill the [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}