{"id":24942,"date":"2016-08-13T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24942"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:06:18","slug":"thirteen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/thirteen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THIRTEEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>This is not about the kitchen table<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe kitchen table never touches the floor,<br \/>\nhangs from the wall like a shelf.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen table where we ate so many dinners,<br \/>\nits three sides and the three of us.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen table where we read the small script<br \/>\nof our small drama.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen where my mother cooks and cooks,<br \/>\nand I am nine, standing in the doorway<\/p>\n<p>with my friend Julie,<br \/>\nmy cousin, at the table, changed in these two ways:<\/p>\n<p>her handsome nose now bobbed to a nubbin<br \/>\nher delicious rough-bark name sanded to a smooth plank.<\/p>\n<p>I introduce her by the wrong name,<br \/>\nthe kitchen table a witness, holds my humiliation like a stain.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">j.i. kleinberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not about the kitchen table The kitchen table never touches the floor, hangs from the wall like a shelf. The kitchen table where we ate so many dinners, its three sides and the three of us. The kitchen table where we read the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[684,1319,410],"class_list":["post-24942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-childhood","tag-j-i-kleinberg","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24979,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions\/24979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}