{"id":523,"date":"2012-03-26T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=523"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:36:35","slug":"numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/26\/numb\/","title":{"rendered":"NUMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/a-j\/\">A.J.<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><em>Where were you last night?<br \/>\n<\/em>my wife snaps at me<br \/>\nas I stumble through the door<br \/>\ndrunk as a lying man could be.<\/p>\n<p>I stare at her green eyes.<br \/>\nShe can see past my unbelievable lies.<br \/>\nHer mouth moves as it\u2019s done before,<br \/>\nspitting, cursing, yelling.<\/p>\n<p>But her violent words don\u2019t stop the room<br \/>\nfrom spinning or me from caring.<br \/>\nHer hand slaps my numb face<br \/>\nand tries to put me in my place.<\/p>\n<p>A door slams.<br \/>\nOur window shatters.<br \/>\nI pass out on the couch.<br \/>\nNothing matters.<\/p>\n<p>I finally awake from my deep slumber.<br \/>\nBoy oh boy what a bummer!<br \/>\nThe house is empty.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t believe she left me.<\/p>\n<p>I slowly arise<br \/>\nand to my surprise<br \/>\neverything in the house is gone,<br \/>\nwell, her stuff anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I walk around the house<br \/>\nlooking for clues.<br \/>\nWhere did she go?<br \/>\nNo one knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/a-j\/\">A.J.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Where were you last night?<br \/> my wife snaps at me<br \/> as I stumble through the door<br \/> drunk as a lying man could be.<\/p>\n<p>I stare at her green eyes.<br \/> She can see past my unbelievable lies.<br \/> Her mouth moves as it\u2019s done before,<br \/> spitting, cursing, yelling.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79510],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}