{"id":419,"date":"2006-05-25T19:38:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T02:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=419"},"modified":"2006-05-26T07:16:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T14:16:03","slug":"whiling-away-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/whiling-away-time\/","title":{"rendered":"whiling away time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2\/22\/06 Starbucks High Ridge<\/p>\n<p>whiling away time<br \/>\nSam busy at Richie&#8217;s<br \/>\n(bathroom)<br \/>\nI read Ashbery&#8217;s <i>Chinese Whispers<\/i><br \/>\na birthday gift from Ralph<br \/>\ngives me a feeling<br \/>\na sensation<br \/>\nlike I&#8217;m an old disordered Victorian<br \/>\nwhich I am<br \/>\nlike obsidian<br \/>\nsomething seen out of the corner of my eye<br \/>\nthe &#8220;we&#8221; recapturing college<br \/>\nthe hi-jinks of old friends<br \/>\nlike Ashbery could never be an honest I<br \/>\nunsuccessful journaling<br \/>\na surplus of fish<br \/>\nand other animals of the sea<br \/>\nI&#8217;m amused anyway<\/p>\n<p>Today Linda told me<br \/>\nI needed a beatin&#8217;<br \/>\nand Elaine needed a beatin&#8217;<br \/>\nand Sanjay needed a smack on the back of his head hard enough that his head would hit the desk and snap back and leave a little mark right here &#8230;<br \/>\nI felt a little overwhelmed with the violence<br \/>\nof the English school marm<br \/>\nso I pounded a first on the table (I mean a fist)<br \/>\nand I closed the meeting<br \/>\nnot wanting to sit around any longer<br \/>\nwith Mr. Dithers<br \/>\nwe had sat around long enough<br \/>\nwe, the left behind<br \/>\nwe could have been visiting Tulip Row in Amsterdam<br \/>\nbut instead we were in Montvale<br \/>\ntaking our beatin&#8217;<br \/>\ntaking it good<br \/>\ntaking it on our booties<br \/>\nsighing in our byootiful booties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/22\/06 Starbucks High Ridge whiling away time Sam busy at Richie&#8217;s (bathroom) I read Ashbery&#8217;s Chinese Whispers a birthday gift from Ralph gives me a feeling a sensation like I&#8217;m an old disordered Victorian&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}