{"id":38449,"date":"2017-08-05T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38449"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:21:00","slug":"twelve-twelve-jars-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/twelve-twelve-jars-of-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Twelve &#8211; Twelve Jars of Wine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nFor the Tang Immortals<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Especially for Li Po<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>One of my Favorite Poets<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In a Style He&#8217;d Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twelve jars of wine beside a river bank,<br \/>\neach one a friend and for a friend to break<br \/>\nthe seal of, letting out the breath of grape<br \/>\nand age and love and how all things must end.<br \/>\nMy friends are never with me when I&#8217;m rank<br \/>\nand drunk beside the water, so I shake<br \/>\nmy fist up at the clouds and let the shape<br \/>\nof all my sorrows flow like them again.<\/p>\n<p>Shaped clouds, like vines, like rivers, and the wine,<br \/>\ndivine in every way that heaven knows,<br \/>\nare always friends. I answer as they pass,<br \/>\nfor drunkards hear cloud voices in sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>The jars are empty. Wine&#8217;s like friends, it goes<br \/>\naway, and leaves me, cloudy, on my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Tang Immortals Especially for Li Po One of my Favorite Poets In a Style He&#8217;d Like &nbsp; Twelve jars of wine beside a river bank, each one a friend and for a friend to break the seal of, letting out the breath of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38449","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\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38459,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38449\/revisions\/38459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}