{"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 href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/a-j\/\" target=\"_blank\">A.J.<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/shawn\/\">SHAWN<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Great lakes splashing colorful mists below me.<br \/> Boats steaming rapidly smell like oysters,<br \/> fresh from bathtubs where I pass cups of saltwater<br \/> over outstretched lips, chapped, thirsty.<br \/> Forever dry, the pillows floating like capsules of<br \/> aspirin throughout constant prayer, filtering extremely emotional<br \/> fists against [&#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":[79510,79488],"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}]}}