{"id":808,"date":"2005-02-08T23:18:14","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=808"},"modified":"2005-02-08T23:23:25","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T10:23:25","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/808","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask<br \/>\nthe nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass.<br \/>\nAnd now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite,<br \/>\nand one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night.<\/p>\n<p>O come with me my little one, we will find that farm<br \/>\nand grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm.<br \/>\nAnd if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am,<br \/>\nO take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb.<\/p>\n<p>With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl<br \/>\nI balance on a wishing well that all men call the world.<br \/>\nWe are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,<br \/>\nand lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye. <\/p>\n<p><small>&mdash; from Leonard Cohen&#8217;s song &#8216;Stories of the Street&#8217; <\/small>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask the nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass. And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite, and one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night. O come with me my little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}