{"id":90272,"date":"2021-06-26T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90272"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:15:36","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-an-easy-job-book-by-kikuko-tsumura-translated-by-polly-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/theres-no-such-thing-as-an-easy-job-book-by-kikuko-tsumura-translated-by-polly-barton\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no such thing as an easy job:  Book by Kikuko Tsumura, translated by Polly Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is the unnamed narrator also, inevitably,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An unreliable one? Reader, you only know\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the world that she lays out like cards\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on the table before you. Who knows what\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">she hides? Certain ruptures,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tuesday afternoon traffic jams,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the inevitable boredom of 3 or 4 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The story begins at sunrise, she says,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">imploring you to \u201chope like anything\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it would turn out alright.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the unnamed narrator also, inevitably,\u00a0 An unreliable one? Reader, you only know\u00a0 the world that she lays out like cards\u00a0 on the table before you. Who knows what\u00a0 she hides? Certain ruptures,\u00a0 Tuesday afternoon traffic jams, the inevitable boredom of 3 or 4 a.m&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90272","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\/2858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90288,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90272\/revisions\/90288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}