{"id":77,"date":"2008-06-19T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T08:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppagemma.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:36:13","slug":"98th-and-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"98th and 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Green goes the light and horns<br \/>\nfollow in their cacophony<br \/>\nof up and down pauses before wheels<br \/>\nroll as a mother&#8217;s bench lullabye<br \/>\nlicks against the leaves that<br \/>\nwave the day to dark, and grass<br \/>\nis warmer than if the cat napped on it<br \/>\nas the metal swings squeal<br \/>\nwith the pound of children<\/p>\n<p>And the path has dogs, spandex joggers,<br \/>\nred nails in careful little sandals,<br \/>\nsweating soccer men and several large<br \/>\npizzas carried from the corner store, before<br \/>\nthe shade coats the day and the stones<br \/>\nthat jut like acne will still stay warm,<br \/>\nbenches are long green strips of wood and<br \/>\nthe busker plays for you to buy his CD,<br \/>\nnot handfuls of smiles and change&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then the little hill goes up and around<br \/>\nas you can nearly touch the traffic signal<br \/>\nby the part where the road cuts like a box knife<br \/>\nthrough the quiet, but there are enough rolling<br \/>\nstone walls that I forget there is such a thing<br \/>\nas time and other places to be, until a couple<br \/>\nsound asleep on their green square remind my heart<br \/>\nthe park is a large empty place where I should<br \/>\nstand straight and walk quickly to stop the<br \/>\nsad sort of pollen from reddening my eyes-<\/p>\n<p>With another day when the weather was warm<br \/>\nwe looped crunching circles around willow trees&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green goes the light and horns follow in their cacophony of up and down pauses before wheels roll as a mother&#8217;s bench lullabye licks against the leaves that wave the day to dark, and grass is warmer than if the cat napped on it as the metal swings squeal with the pound of children And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-older-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}