{"id":1754,"date":"2006-02-14T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/02\/14\/the-wall-im-waiting-for\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T02:31:00","slug":"the-wall-im-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/02\/14\/the-wall-im-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"the wall I&#8217;m waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/97840090\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/32\/97840090_05bd9d57a2_o.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"530\" alt=\"580587lo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Four Years <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/download.yousendit.com\/F20CD2837136639B\">The smell of him<\/a> went soon<br \/>\nfrom all his shirts.<br \/>\nI sent them for jumble,<br \/>\nand the sweaters and suits.<br \/>\nThe shoes<br \/>\nheld more of him; he was printed<br \/>\ninto his shoes. I did not burn<br \/>\nor throw or give them away.<br \/>\nTime has denatured them now.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing left.<br \/>\nThere will never be<br \/>\na hair of his in a comb.<br \/>\nBut I want to believe<br \/>\nthat in the shifting housedust<br \/>\nminute presences still drift:<br \/>\nan eyelash,<br \/>\na hard crescent cut from a fingernail,<br \/>\nthat sometimes<br \/>\nbetween the folds of a curtain<br \/>\nor the covers of a book<br \/>\nI touch<br \/>\na flake of his skin.<\/p>\n<p>-Pamela Gillilan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Years The smell of him went soon from all his shirts. I sent them for jumble, and the sweaters and suits. The shoes held more of him; he was printed into his shoes. I did not burn or throw or give them away. Time has denatured them now. Nothing left. There will never be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/02\/14\/the-wall-im-waiting-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the wall I&#8217;m waiting for&#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":[155,128,148],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-poetry","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","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=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}