{"id":1835,"date":"2021-04-02T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T03:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/04\/02\/in-praise-of-lousy-words\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T03:47:29","slug":"in-praise-of-lousy-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/04\/02\/in-praise-of-lousy-words\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of lousy words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lousy words roll,<br \/>\nstart somewhere<br \/>\ntoward the back of his skull<\/p>\n<p>Marble out in his too full mouth<br \/>\ntoward his lips, from his lips<br \/>\nspinning, spill out onto the<br \/>\nfloor. <\/p>\n<p>Lousy words make him<br \/>\nslide fall sprain on the ice<\/p>\n<p>his wrist catching<br \/>\nhimself with his right hand,<br \/>\nthe seat of his<br \/>\npants cold, wet.<\/p>\n<p>Why stand on the ice<br \/>\nin the first place in those<br \/>\nsharp, black shoes?<\/p>\n<p>And those same lousy words<br \/>\nmark joy mark life<br \/>\nletting him shine through.<\/p>\n<p>Letting him shine like<br \/>\nmarbles like ice spinning, sliding<\/p>\n<p>like sharp black shoes<br \/>\ncovered in ice debris now<br \/>\nas he rights himself.<\/p>\n<p>As he sends those words<br \/>\nfrom the back of his skull<br \/>\nto yours<\/p>\n<p>and all<br \/>\nthe shimmer points<br \/>\nin between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lousy words roll, start somewhere toward the back of his skull Marble out in his too full mouth toward his lips, from his lips spinning, spill out onto the floor. Lousy words make him slide fall sprain on the ice his wrist catching himself with his right hand, the seat of his pants cold, wet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-o-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}