{"id":635,"date":"2004-06-28T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/06\/28\/not-so-unexpected-surprise\/"},"modified":"2004-06-28T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T22:31:00","slug":"not-so-unexpected-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/06\/28\/not-so-unexpected-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"not so unexpected surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was interesting to picture you tall at a payphone. I could feel your smile like heat, sunwarmth on my skin. Your back to the phone, looking away, out a window. Trying to see the people you must be watching walk by.  I sat in my window alcove in a nest of vivd silks. Bright lit and bare feet. Your voice subtly different, your vocabulary shifted. Thinking I should worry a moment, but click smooth slide into conversation. <\/p>\n<p>I want to call you back to me, but I don&#8217;t have a number to dial. The days are numbered maybe so, but i&#8217;m not finding waiting hard. I think you feel a pressure that I&#8217;m letting glide past me into nothing. It&#8217;s my turn to find you wrapped in a sheet. A present, a gift, with a candy cherry bow. I still don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ll know me now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was interesting to picture you tall at a payphone. I could feel your smile like heat, sunwarmth on my skin. Your back to the phone, looking away, out a window. Trying to see the people you must be watching walk by. I sat in my window alcove in a nest of vivd silks. Bright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/06\/28\/not-so-unexpected-surprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;not so unexpected surprise&#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":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}