{"id":385,"date":"2017-11-04T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=385"},"modified":"2017-11-04T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:28:50","slug":"homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2017\/11\/04\/homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"HOMECOMING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by ALI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;hold up, all good, a week ago, crew Party on the radio, favorite song, made me bounce, I don\u2019t know, I won\u2019t be here long\u2026\u201d &#8211; Headphones on, bounce around, cleaning, singing, hear my name. Slip into parks, and glance in the hallway, it\u2019s empty but packed. Just moved in, neighbors loud 24\/7. Got to get it out. Little brother, no where. Lace my way through boxes, furniture. Look around the corner. Still no where.\u201d Mum,\u201d no response. Phone vibrates. Balance down. Mum took brother down to the park with friends. I\u2019m alone. Telly\u2019s on, singing alone, can\u2019t recall which song. On the bus, \u201cHomecoming. Go.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d he said. \u201cGive me my stuff,\u201d he countered. \u201cHomecoming. Go.\u201d He reaches, I curl up on the object, as if clinging for dear life. \u201cGive me my stuff.\u201d He grabs for it, then pulls me close to him. \u201cI\u2019ll kiss you,\u201d he threatens. I look towards the window, otherwise, ignoring him. I\u2019m slightly scared. I\u2019m a fox in sheep&#8217;s clothing. Though I forget it\u2019s just a costume, and it becomes my skin. I look around. No one seems to notice. He kisses me. I fall, so hard towards the ground, and give in. \u201cNo matter what you say or what you do, when I\u2019m alone I\u2019d rather be with you\u2026.I\u2019ll be right by your side till 3005\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by ALI<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;hold up, all good, a week ago, crew Party on the radio, favorite song, made me bounce, I don\u2019t know, I won\u2019t be here long\u2026\u201d &#8211; Headphones on, bounce around, cleaning, singing, hear my name. Slip into parks, and glance in the hallway, it\u2019s empty but packed. Just moved in, neighbors loud 24\/7. [&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}