{"id":96704,"date":"2021-06-26T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96704"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:50:45","slug":"10-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10-8\/","title":{"rendered":"10."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas comes as surely as July heat<br \/>\nThings slow to nothing when the frenzy ends<br \/>\nYou\u2019re waiting for me in the arrivals lounge<br \/>\nFeels strange to see airports full again<br \/>\nIn the crowds I see plenty of first place bad Christmas sweaters<br \/>\nThree glass jars in the carryon bag I carried through two layovers<br \/>\nHouse careful quotients of nutmeg, and cloves<br \/>\nstar anise and snapped cinnamon,<br \/>\nTo stir into a simmering California red<br \/>\nWith December oranges from the backyard<br \/>\nMaybe it\u2019ll be just cold enough tonight<br \/>\nFor mulled wine by L.A. moonlight<br \/>\nThe headlights and taillights are cheerful as we drive<br \/>\nLAX to the San Gabriel foothills<br \/>\nBlue against the falling night<br \/>\nHome doesn\u2019t mean what it used to these days<br \/>\nI\u2019m grateful to say: I\u2019m coming home for Christmas<br \/>\nTo my love<br \/>\nIt\u2019s pizza in our friends home<br \/>\nAnd a free for all on Christmas morn<br \/>\nthe ornaments we bought last year are on the tree swirling \u201cFuck 2020\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas comes as surely as July heat Things slow to nothing when the frenzy ends You\u2019re waiting for me in the arrivals lounge Feels strange to see airports full again In the crowds I see plenty of first place bad Christmas sweaters Three glass jars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96704","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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96705,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96704\/revisions\/96705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}