{"id":2832,"date":"2014-06-09T19:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T23:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/181.sorabji.com\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2014-06-09T19:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T23:34:49","slug":"mother-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2014\/06\/09\/mother-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Mother II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI never knew your mother.<\/p>\n<p>According to house rules she filled<br \/>\nchurches with garbled tantrums of<br \/>\npolitical candy.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes chocolate,<br \/>\nother times yeasty, she<br \/>\ncancelled without violence the<br \/>\nrestless boils found<br \/>\nfidgeting in the pews.<\/p>\n<p>No one knew of her until<br \/>\nsaint-driven Cadillacs appeared to<br \/>\nglory her away, high in the sky but<br \/>\nlow to the road.<\/p>\n<p>Today her heartbeat<br \/>\npounds with barbaric thunder,<br \/>\nexporting its<br \/>\ndelusions into<br \/>\npriests\u2019 homilies and<br \/>\ncriminals\u2019 excuses.<\/p>\n<p>You never knew her either.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never knew your mother. According to house rules she filled churches with garbled tantrums of political candy. Sometimes chocolate, other times yeasty, she cancelled without violence the restless boils found fidgeting in the pews. No one knew of her until saint-driven Cadillacs appeared to glory her away, high in the sky but low to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-JG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}