{"id":33,"date":"2004-01-20T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=33"},"modified":"2004-01-20T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T07:39:11","slug":"irritable-reaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/irritable-reaching\/","title":{"rendered":"irritable reaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when I want writing to be like weaving, regular, with a pattern, over and over, front and back, side to side<\/p>\n<p>when I want writing to be like knitting, taking a thread, working it through the fingers, elaborately looping, around and around, attached to those sticks that are rhythmically clacking<\/p>\n<p>when I want writing to be like First Holy Communion, wearing a frilly white dress and veil, taking the Man into your mouth, reaching after ecstasy with all young hope amongst your classmates<\/p>\n<p>when I want writing to be textured, gritty like sand, or cold as a snow fort, the texture of shelter, the texture of sun<\/p>\n<p>when I want writing to be electronic, beeping in response to commands, structured and styled, fuzzy only in the intersections, embedded in the overlapping rules of each domain<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I want<\/p>\n<p>seagull wing smashed onto the highway<br \/>\nfeathers lift in the wind of passing cars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when I want writing to be like weaving, regular, with a pattern, over and over, front and back, side to side when I want writing to be like knitting, taking a thread, working it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}