{"id":38,"date":"1996-11-05T00:38:55","date_gmt":"1996-11-05T04:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greasymonkey.net\/MonkeyBLOG\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:39:17","slug":"lany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Lany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Winter Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Late January<\/p>\n<p>His wandering eye<br \/>\nroams me like an intrigued<br \/>\nstranger, amused and<\/p>\n<p>aloof &#8211; urbane in a<br \/>\nfarmtown. I pull back<br \/>\nmy hair and &#8211; shoulders<\/p>\n<p>straight as the lone white<br \/>\nbirch pensive near the<br \/>\nbarn &#8211; rashly, staunchly<br \/>\nwarrant his investigation.<br \/>\nMy shadow lies, its<br \/>\nedges unwavering.<\/p>\n<p>If cut, would this perfect<br \/>\nindigo reflection, this<br \/>\nsilhouettemystery, be<\/p>\n<p>a colder, purely violet me?<br \/>\nOur conversation<br \/>\nswerves like the ski tracks<\/p>\n<p>that wind their slender,<br \/>\nsymmetrical, iceblue<br \/>\nway down, out of sight &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>now &#8211; lost to the pines.<\/p>\n<p>Lany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Winter Memory Late January His wandering eye roams me like an intrigued stranger, amused and aloof &#8211; urbane in a farmtown. I pull back my hair and &#8211; shoulders straight as the lone white birch pensive near the barn &#8211; rashly, staunchly warrant his investigation. My shadow lies, its edges unwavering. If cut, would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7SmAb-lany","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}