{"id":2881,"date":"2009-01-31T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/31\/with-this-post-i-am-officially-calling-dibs-on-oren-lavie\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T18:20:00","slug":"with-this-post-i-am-officially-calling-dibs-on-oren-lavie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/31\/with-this-post-i-am-officially-calling-dibs-on-oren-lavie\/","title":{"rendered":"With this post, I am officially calling dibs on Oren Lavie."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n\n\n
\nSoon she’s down the stairs
\nHer morning elegance she wears
\nThe sound of water makes her dream
\nAwoken by a cloud of steam
\nShe pours a daydream in a cup
\nA spoon of sugar sweetens up<\/i><\/td>\n		<\/td>\nSun been down for days
\nA winter melody she plays
\nThe thunder makes her contemplate
\nShe hears a noise behind the gate
\nPerhaps a letter with a dove
\nPerhaps a stranger she could love<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Today, using addresses given to me by friends on the internet<\/a>, I prepared and mailed tiny packages to London, Seattle, Atlanta, Brooklyn, Carolina Beach, Herts, Cambria, Dumfries, Burlington, Urbana, Roanoke, Phoenix, and Manhattan. A fine spread, beautiful evidence of the far reaching influence of modern communication.<\/p>\n

I sat in a puddle of white envelopes at the park<\/a>, addressing them, tipping ingredients into one, and then into another, slipping cards into each, slipping in cards, rose petals, and my smile, wishing I had through to bring more tiny plastic dinosaurs. The sky was almost like summer today, except too pale, as if seen through a film of soap. <\/p>\n

Curious pedestrians would stop and ask what I was doing, wanted to know if this was a business I had, sending interesting letters to strangers. I told them this was far too bare bones, that I was too poor to be anything but kind in a nostalgic way. “People have trusted me, wouldn’t you want to reward such behavior?” This seemed to satisfy as, once I said that, they would gently walk away, glad to have asked, but not interested enough to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soon she’s down the stairs Her morning elegance she wears The sound of water makes her dream Awoken by a cloud of steam She pours a daydream in a cup A spoon of sugar sweetens up Sun been down for days A winter melody she plays The thunder makes her contemplate She hears a noise … Continue reading “With this post, I am officially calling dibs on Oren Lavie.”<\/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":[157,94,5,22],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friends","tag-letters","tag-mail","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","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=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}