{"id":2053,"date":"2012-10-28T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2012-10-28T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T03:21:17","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"4&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pieces II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where did these scraps come from?<br \/>\nAn old dress, torn to pieces<br \/>\nan old shirt, abandoned to rags<br \/>\ndoomed to a dusty corner<br \/>\nrelegated to cleaning up spills<br \/>\ncast by an ordinary life<br \/>\nrescued at the last moment<br \/>\nthrown in with other<br \/>\nmisfits and malcontents<br \/>\nawakening in a factory<br \/>\nor some small village<br \/>\nsweltering the the dog days<br \/>\nof monsoon season<br \/>\nnimble fingers picking pieces<br \/>\nseemingly at random<br \/>\nsewing them together<br \/>\nwith hand-me-down thread<br \/>\nends and seconds,<br \/>\nbargain bin leftovers<br \/>\npaper pressed wet onto screens<br \/>\nleft to dry in the sun<br \/>\nI can still smell it:<br \/>\nnothing at all like living trees<br \/>\nLater, sold to strangers<br \/>\nat overinflated prices<br \/>\nwaiting for a poet to give them<br \/>\nnew memories, a borrowed soul,<br \/>\nan illusion, perhaps<br \/>\nof purpose<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; T.H. (Patchwork Journal)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieces II Where did these scraps come from? An old dress, torn to pieces an old shirt, abandoned to rags doomed to a dusty corner relegated to cleaning up spills cast by an ordinary life rescued at the last moment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2053\">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":[810,770,808,764,819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"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=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}