{"id":138,"date":"2017-01-15T03:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2022-09-20T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:32:43","slug":"at-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=138","title":{"rendered":"At His Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You shouted \u201cJew Boy!\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and slap shot the dark puck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It missed my head, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ricocheted off a locker instead.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stick erect in hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you waited for my reaction,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a reason to kick my butt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and perform for your teammates &#8212; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but fear locked my lips shut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven years later <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we stand among the mourners:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you beside the gaping hole, a bodyguard<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with dark glasses and crossed arms,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">red carnation growing from your clenched fist.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You say nothing, as if you never hated me<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven years earlier, graduation day<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we celebrated seeing each other for the last time,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before we could know our friend\u2019s car would slam into a tree <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and reunite us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before the dead<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and me wondering: can you respect the living?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=61\">back to Poetry<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You shouted \u201cJew Boy!\u201d and slap shot the dark puck. It missed my head, ricocheted off a locker instead. Stick erect in hand you waited for my reaction, a reason to kick my butt and perform for your teammates &#8212; but fear locked my lips shut. Seven years later we stand among the mourners: you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}