{"id":2037,"date":"2012-10-23T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T21:27:02","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2037","title":{"rendered":"9&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pieces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faint fingers fumble<br \/>\nfor a coin in the dark<br \/>\na handhold on a slick surface<br \/>\nseven splintered notes<br \/>\nabandoned by the side<br \/>\nof the road, forgotten<br \/>\nI think they belonged<br \/>\nto a piano concerto once<br \/>\nor maybe the chorus<br \/>\nof a well-loved pop song<br \/>\nanyway<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ve long since lost<br \/>\nthe story of original sin<br \/>\nunbound by family, they are<br \/>\nthe ultimate in uncultured<br \/>\ntribeless feckless whim<br \/>\nfree to clash and crash at will<br \/>\nheadlong into oncoming traffic<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll leap blindly<br \/>\ninto the abyss, if someone<br \/>\ndares them to<br \/>\na voice keeps calling our names<br \/>\nbidding us come, stay, wait, go<br \/>\nwe dance down dark alleys<br \/>\nin the midst of a snowstorm, barefoot<br \/>\nmusic without shape, singing<br \/>\nout of tune, and laughing<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; T.H. (Patchwork Journal, 05.24.11)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieces Faint fingers fumble for a coin in the dark a handhold on a slick surface seven splintered notes abandoned by the side of the road, forgotten I think they belonged to a piano concerto once or maybe the chorus &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2037\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[810,807,814,764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}