{"id":3723,"date":"2011-12-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/12\/10\/dont-you-remember-how-it-used-to-be-beautiful\/"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:00:00","slug":"dont-you-remember-how-it-used-to-be-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/12\/10\/dont-you-remember-how-it-used-to-be-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t you remember how It used to be beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Letter<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by Dana Gioia<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And in the end, all that is really left<br \/>\nIs a feeling\u2014strong and unavoidable\u2014<br \/>\nThat somehow we deserved something better.<br \/>\nThat somewhere along the line things<br \/>\nGot fouled up. And that letter from whoever\u2019s<br \/>\nIn charge, which certainly would have set<br \/>\nEverything straight between us and the world,<br \/>\nNever reached us. Got lost somewhere.<br \/>\nPossibly mislaid in some provincial station.<br \/>\nOr sent by mistake to an old address<br \/>\nWhose new tenant put it on her dresser<br \/>\nWith the curlers and the hairspray forgetting<br \/>\nTo give it to the landlord to forward.<br \/>\nAnd we still wait like children who have sent<br \/>\nTwo weeks\u2019 allowance far away<br \/>\nTo answer an enticing advertisement<br \/>\nFrom a crumbling, yellow magazine,<br \/>\nWatching through years as long as a childhood summer,<br \/>\nChecking the postbox with impatient faith<br \/>\nEven on days when mail is never brought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Letter by Dana Gioia And in the end, all that is really left Is a feeling\u2014strong and unavoidable\u2014 That somehow we deserved something better. That somewhere along the line things Got fouled up. And that letter from whoever\u2019s In charge, which certainly would have set Everything straight between us and the world, Never reached &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/12\/10\/dont-you-remember-how-it-used-to-be-beautiful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;don&#8217;t you remember how It used to be beautiful&#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":[240,128],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anniversary","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}