{"id":102,"date":"2011-12-16T03:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T03:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2012-03-09T03:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:53:58","slug":"the-vanwoman-called","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?page_id=102","title":{"rendered":"The Vanwoman Called"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ticker was skipping beats<br \/>\nwhen the vanwoman called,<br \/>\nswept past me with her blue toolbox,<br \/>\na grunt of greeting as she headed straight<br \/>\nfor the jugular of the mantelpiece clock;<br \/>\nunscrewing its face, she tore off the diseased scions,<br \/>\npaused at the numbers (translating from the Roman?)<br \/>\n\u2014 impotent now with their indicators gone.<\/p>\n<p>An alarm clock sounded in a neighbour\u2019s house.<br \/>\nThe vanwoman sighed. <em>Is the day ever done?<\/em><br \/>\nShe snapped shut the face of the clock<br \/>\nand packed her tools into her blue toolbox,<br \/>\na token smile going out the door.<br \/>\n<em>You should be all right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(published by Boho Press, 2005)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?page_id=90\" title=\"Poetry\">Return to the Poetry page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ticker was skipping beats when the vanwoman called, swept past me with her blue toolbox, a grunt of greeting as she headed straight for the jugular of the mantelpiece clock; unscrewing its face, she tore off the diseased scions,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/162"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}