{"id":698,"date":"2012-12-23T00:51:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-12-23T00:51:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T00:51:59","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve<\/p>\n<p>The birds make fake bird songs<br \/>\nthat I heard in the Christmas shops,<br \/>\nthe fake moon is spotted before dark,<br \/>\nthe navyblue sky is waiting<br \/>\nfor its absence to be filled,<br \/>\nhouses stand like sentries,<br \/>\nmen in windows sharpen knives,<br \/>\ndogs bark at the fading light,<br \/>\nblack specks of carbon birds<br \/>\ncircle my head<br \/>\nbecause I am one<br \/>\nwho will not look up,<br \/>\nthe small boy counts down,<br \/>\nradio and TV hop with expectation,<br \/>\nthe weather changes,<br \/>\nthe bookmaker gives good odds on snow,<br \/>\nall is meant to change,<br \/>\nthe barometer moves up and down<br \/>\nthe human heart,<br \/>\ncloying melodies bring tears<br \/>\nto those who depart;<br \/>\nit is a time of arrival<br \/>\nwhere the moss grows green<br \/>\nand the harvest that was gathered<br \/>\ncan now be shared between<br \/>\nthe angels carrying candles<br \/>\nand the drunk who sways in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>From my collection Rus in Urbe published by Doghouse Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve The birds make fake bird songs that I heard in the Christmas shops, the fake moon is spotted before dark, the navyblue sky is waiting for its absence to be filled, houses stand like sentries, men in windows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}