{"id":801,"date":"2012-11-04T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=801"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:50:25","slug":"one-word-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/11\/04\/one-word-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE WORD AT A TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/a-j\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">A.J.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/shawn\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">SHAWN<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Great lakes splashing colorful mists below me.<br \/>\nBoats steaming rapidly smell like oysters,<br \/>\nfresh from bathtubs where I pass cups of saltwater<br \/>\nover outstretched lips, chapped, thirsty.<br \/>\nForever dry, the pillows floating like capsules of<br \/>\naspirin throughout constant prayer, filtering extremely emotional<br \/>\nfists against specific penitents.<br \/>\nBubble pops, reality kicks \u2013 you\u2019re contagious with<br \/>\nyour beautifully ugly self-esteem<br \/>\nleading your unstoppable growth;<br \/>\nit\u2019s scary with fragile arms broken, bent, and hurt.<br \/>\nMood swings dropping lightly like antennae \u2013 no signal \u2013<br \/>\nbalanced between fingertips gripping<br \/>\nyesterday\u2019s throat.<br \/>\nCrystalline, that\u2019s my fruit punch.<br \/>\nEmotional dinosaurs soar over the lagoon;<br \/>\nI stare up \u2013<br \/>\nbrightly colored stars \u2013 they\u2019re so beautiful<br \/>\nthat I begin to remember you in harsh memories<br \/>\nthat I try to bury alive but it keeps connecting with the\u00a0horrible memories.<br \/>\nStuffed bunnies, recycled trash, and tough love<br \/>\nspreads like roaches eating peanut-shaped sweets,<br \/>\nphysical darlings scattering abundantly.<br \/>\nClangers clang.<br \/>\nKaboom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by A.J.\u00a0&amp;\u00a0SHAWN Great lakes splashing colorful mists below me. Boats steaming rapidly smell like oysters, fresh from bathtubs where I pass cups of saltwater over outstretched lips, chapped, thirsty. Forever dry, the pillows floating like capsules of aspirin throughout constant prayer, filtering extremely emotional fists against specific penitents. Bubble pops, reality kicks \u2013 you\u2019re contagious [&hellip;]<\/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":[79510,79488],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-j","tag-shawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}