{"id":48772,"date":"2019-06-22T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48772"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:45:24","slug":"when-they-buried-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/when-they-buried-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When they buried you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was ten. Service started<br \/>\nin the mausoleum, cold in August, dry<br \/>\nin Charleston. My face was swollen<br \/>\nblooming in red\u2014 crying still doesn\u2019t suit me.<br \/>\nMen I didn\u2019t know in sharp uniform<br \/>\ndraped a flag over your casket<br \/>\nas if it was an honor. It would be<br \/>\nan honor to hear your laugh<br \/>\ncrack and wheeze. Mourners lined up<br \/>\nin six prim rows split<br \/>\ndown the middle. Men in sharp uniform<br \/>\nmarched through glass doors into sunlight,<br \/>\nrifles on shoulders. More lines.<br \/>\nSome mechanism, invisible strings, prompted<br \/>\nthem to lift and switch and snap, rifles<br \/>\nmore lines, 70 degree angle held tight.<br \/>\nThose were the first shots I heard<br \/>\nsince you&#8230; since you&#8230; since you&#8230;<br \/>\nMy shoes were off, bare blistered feet<br \/>\non marble, pads only pumping<br \/>\nto the opposite wall. All glass and names.<br \/>\nI watched from the dark<br \/>\nhands over ears and the shots<br \/>\nkept coming. My navy blue dress itched<br \/>\ninside and out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was ten. Service started in the mausoleum, cold in August, dry in Charleston. My face was swollen blooming in red\u2014 crying still doesn\u2019t suit me. Men I didn\u2019t know in sharp uniform draped a flag over your casket as if it was an honor&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48772","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48835,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48772\/revisions\/48835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}