{"id":3312,"date":"2010-05-20T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/05\/20\/catching-the-5-a-m-bus\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:49:00","slug":"catching-the-5-a-m-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/05\/20\/catching-the-5-a-m-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"catching the 5 a.m. bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/4588671924\/\" title=\"Untitled by Foxtongue, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4588671924_9603b8fc14.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHe slowly loses mass while I sleep, the cells of his body evaporating into morning. By the time I wake, he is gone, as well are his things. Defined by absence, no note is left, nothing to say he was here, only a small clear space is left behind on the floor from his suitcase. He drifts away like a ghost, particles shedding into the air with every breath as I dream, his kisses vanishing with him. Sitting in the bed, I find a few stray hairs on the pillow and twist them around a finger, wedding ring proof he&#8217;s not imaginary, but still I do not believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He slowly loses mass while I sleep, the cells of his body evaporating into morning. By the time I wake, he is gone, as well are his things. Defined by absence, no note is left, nothing to say he was here, only a small clear space is left behind on the floor from his suitcase. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/05\/20\/catching-the-5-a-m-bus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;catching the 5 a.m. bus&#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":[8,1328,9],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-love","tag-tony","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","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=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}