{"id":39259,"date":"2017-08-05T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39259"},"modified":"2017-08-05T22:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:12:53","slug":"expressive-hour-13-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/expressive-hour-13-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPRESSIVE           (hour 13, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXPRESSIVE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>\u00a0 \u201cRed narrates, red highlights, red beautifies brunettes but doesn\u2019t blemish blondes, red embellishes, red loved, and red kills too \u2013 but it is not the color of mourning.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, \u201cExpressive Red\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What if the world turned red? Red, red, and red, with bits of white, orange and black. As if there were to be no mourning anymore. No lost words, no missed affection, no ungentle touching. Only relaxation, and the quiet smoothing of hair.<\/p>\n<p>Take Degas\u2019s \u201cCombing the Hair,\u201d for instance. No blue eyes, blue skies, blue bells. No broken bodies lying in green fields, no dead grasses on sandy shores. No snarled black tresses, no blonde roots showing. Only the comb\u2019s whispers, your arm and hand caressing my hair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39378\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Combing-the-Hair-La-Coiffurec.-1896-National-Gallery-Britain-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Combing-the-Hair-La-Coiffurec.-1896-National-Gallery-Britain-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Combing-the-Hair-La-Coiffurec.-1896-National-Gallery-Britain-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Combing-the-Hair-La-Coiffurec.-1896-National-Gallery-Britain.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Degas, <em>Combing the Hair (La Coiffure)<\/em>, The National Gallery (Britain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXPRESSIVE \u00a0 \u201cRed narrates, red highlights, red beautifies brunettes but doesn\u2019t blemish blondes, red embellishes, red loved, and red kills too \u2013 but it is not the color of mourning.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, \u201cExpressive Red\u201d What if the world turned red? Red, red, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259","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\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39387,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259\/revisions\/39387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}