{"id":3653,"date":"2011-07-12T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/07\/12\/born-yesterday-but-stayed-up-all-night\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T19:00:00","slug":"born-yesterday-but-stayed-up-all-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/07\/12\/born-yesterday-but-stayed-up-all-night\/","title":{"rendered":"born yesterday but stayed up all night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/5930516601\/\" title=\"dawn by Foxtongue, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6146\/5930516601_ebb78e6d89_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"dawn\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee at dawn.<\/center><br \/>\nThey were unprepared for the squalling, sniffles, small screams, the bundled misery. (Parents didn&#8217;t know she needed to pop her ears). I reached over, fixed the child, but still didn&#8217;t sleep, mind furnished with too many crooked curiosities, matching floral sets of regrets limned in the light of painful neglect. I wrote out a letter before I left, but didn&#8217;t receive even the barest politesse, an acknowledgment back. So self ethereal, my gestures made so pointless, so invisible to archaologists, history-less, the plane felt like a casket and myself a misfit, unwanted ghost, passing by the country at heights too rarified to survive. Landing was the last thing I thought about. Landing or getting to the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee at dawn. They were unprepared for the squalling, sniffles, small screams, the bundled misery. (Parents didn&#8217;t know she needed to pop her ears). I reached over, fixed the child, but still didn&#8217;t sleep, mind furnished with too many crooked curiosities, matching floral sets of regrets limned in the light of painful neglect. I wrote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/07\/12\/born-yesterday-but-stayed-up-all-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;born yesterday but stayed up all night&#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":[1646,1682,247],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nyc","tag-there-is-no-god","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","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=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}