{"id":39522,"date":"2017-08-05T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39522"},"modified":"2017-08-05T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:36:56","slug":"blue-neon-crucifixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/blue-neon-crucifixion\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Neon Crucifixion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bright lights,<\/span><\/p>\n

the cheers, the jeers<\/span><\/p>\n

of the crowd<\/span><\/p>\n

pierced my dreams and<\/span><\/p>\n

my heart pounded through<\/span><\/p>\n

the fog of sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There was Jesus<\/span><\/p>\n

on the center cross<\/span><\/p>\n

and Nixon on his right.<\/span><\/p>\n

My father\u2019s cross sat<\/span><\/p>\n

waiting, illuminated<\/span><\/p>\n

by blue neon.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He led the way<\/span><\/p>\n

to his end,<\/span><\/p>\n

smiling, jovial, joking,<\/span><\/p>\n

while I watched, transfixed,<\/span><\/p>\n

tears streaming down my face.<\/span><\/p>\n

What was his sacrifice?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My father turned to kiss me, hug me,<\/span><\/p>\n

my heart hammering against his thighs.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want him to surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n

My greatest childhood fear:<\/span><\/p>\n

the death of my father.<\/span><\/p>\n

His abandonment<\/span><\/p>\n

lit up the night sky<\/span><\/p>\n

in the blue neon<\/span><\/p>\n

of my childhood nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eve T. Remillard<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bright lights, the cheers, the jeers of the crowd pierced my dreams and my heart pounded through the fog of sleep.   There was Jesus on the center cross and Nixon on his right. My father\u2019s cross sat waiting, illuminated by blue neon.  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522","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\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39534,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions\/39534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}