{"id":176,"date":"2020-10-05T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=176"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:30:42","slug":"just-to-feel-free-and-be-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/text\/just-to-feel-free-and-be-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Just to feel free and be someone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/gregory-pardlo-wishing-well\/\"> with thanks to Gregory Pardlo and P\u00e1draig \u00d3 Tuama<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sky is clear, immaculate, and the Big Dipper is as big as I&#8217;ve ever seen it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s not your hand I&#8217;m holding. We can&#8217;t hold hands anymore anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the dog holds my hand, her yellow nylon leash taut, as she pulls me on with her snuffling love of scents, with her bounding joy for the running neither of us could do a month ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She drags me on, barking at those white-tailed bastards mocking her in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I squeeze your hand back, and make a wish for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with thanks to Gregory Pardlo and P\u00e1draig \u00d3 Tuama The sky is clear, immaculate, and the Big Dipper is as big as I&#8217;ve ever seen it. And it&#8217;s not your hand I&#8217;m holding. We can&#8217;t hold hands anymore anyway. But the dog holds my hand, her yellow nylon leash taut, as she pulls me on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/text\/just-to-feel-free-and-be-someone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just to feel free and be someone<\/span> <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":{"_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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-2Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}