{"id":1730,"date":"2005-06-22T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/22\/because-i-missed-him\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T15:57:00","slug":"because-i-missed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/22\/because-i-missed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"because I missed him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Persepolis burnt me to the ground, dark gray marble eyes leading me like paths and stairs to a treasury trap of words. I felt bare, richly carved with splendid relief, &#8220;Five years is a rock hewn tomb, too long to be without the silk cotton of skin.&#8221; His hair curled as inscriptions do, written to ward off misfortune. &#8220;I enjoy the silence,&#8221; he said, and he laughed, lambent pearl. My heart was caught in the light of it, a hidden thing suddenly unshadowed, becoming a lantern to hold in my hand. A wet red ruby to guide me to Thoth. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is the geography here?&#8221; He asked and gestured, his hands describing the arc of mythical heroes. &#8220;It is tumbled land, fit for caves and caverns. Happy alone.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m staying in tonight. I have been moving too often for sleep to find me and I wish to be claimed for decency&#8217;s sake. Whatever strange endorphin level I have arrived at, it&#8217;s not feeling anymore like home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persepolis burnt me to the ground, dark gray marble eyes leading me like paths and stairs to a treasury trap of words. I felt bare, richly carved with splendid relief, &#8220;Five years is a rock hewn tomb, too long to be without the silk cotton of skin.&#8221; His hair curled as inscriptions do, written to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/22\/because-i-missed-him\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;because I missed him&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[415,464,25],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marc","tag-persepolis","tag-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}