{"id":339,"date":"2010-06-15T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-06-15T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T18:33:58","slug":"i-like-this-sad-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"i like this sad poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"page_title\"><strong>Love Song (Lame)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"header\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"poem\"><em>This is a little like high  school<\/em><br \/>\nhe said, when I wouldn&#8217;t take off my clothes.<br \/>\nIt was true, although in high school<br \/>\nI would&#8217;ve come over to torture him deliberately<br \/>\nand now the torture was an unfortunate side effect<br \/>\nof my sadness, and had nothing to do with him at all.<br \/>\nSleeping with you would be like<br \/>\na drowning woman grabbing an anvil,<br \/>\nI explained. A burning man guzzling gasoline.<br \/>\nLame analogies, but I was trying to make a point.<br \/>\nWhen he got up for a drink, I missed him<br \/>\nbut that feeling disappeared once he came back.<br \/>\nI sat there and tried to feel sad,<br \/>\ntracking my blue mute form<br \/>\nas it sank to a furrowed ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p>-Courtney Queeny<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"book_title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/nor\">New Ohio  Review<\/a> <\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"issue\">Spring &amp; Summer 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"poem\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Song (Lame) This is a little like high school he said, when I wouldn&#8217;t take off my clothes. It was true, although in high school I would&#8217;ve come over to torture him deliberately and now the torture was an unfortunate side effect of my sadness, and had nothing to do with him at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}