{"id":2127,"date":"2005-06-26T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/26\/questions-that-could-save-my-life\/"},"modified":"2005-06-26T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T15:56:00","slug":"questions-that-could-save-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/26\/questions-that-could-save-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"questions that could save my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/1438662\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.flickr.com\/1438662_087eb25b37_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/1438662\/\">josef astor<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foxtongue\/\">Foxtongue<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I am not a swan, to beat your body into a prone position<br \/>I am not disguised in feathers<br \/>white, downy, strong<br \/>by default a god<\/p>\n<p>I fell and skinned my knees<br \/>a long time ago<br \/>someone picked me up<br \/>then hated me<br \/>it was a long long time ago<\/p>\n<p>this program<br \/>wasn&#8217;t asked for<br \/>but created out of flesh<\/p>\n<p>Tell me preacher,<br \/>explain and denigrate<br \/>tease forth the reasonings<br \/>of why I&#8217;m not allowed to like laughter<br \/>Show my holy things, your gasp<br \/>blasts apart the doors of the chapel<br \/>a thousand hymns that make and pray<br \/>to illustrate <br \/>my sins and stay<br \/>in spite of your eyes<\/p>\n<p>hold silence to me<br \/>house these twisted skies<br \/>the laces in my skin are becoming tight<br \/>I fear my soul is leaping<br \/>no matter your hands<br \/>twisted together<br \/>or your knees<br \/>which sleep in a crowded cloth<\/p>\n<p>You are not a swan<br \/>your wings are wax<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>josef astor Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. I am not a swan, to beat your body into a prone positionI am not disguised in featherswhite, downy, strongby default a god I fell and skinned my kneesa long time agosomeone picked me upthen hated meit was a long long time ago this programwasn&#8217;t asked forbut created out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/26\/questions-that-could-save-my-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;questions that could save my life&#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],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}