{"id":20969,"date":"2015-09-30T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=20969"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:19:38","slug":"%e3%80%8aa-day-in-september%e3%80%8b__amy-siu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=20969","title":{"rendered":"\u300aA day in September\u300b__Amy Siu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u300aA day in September\u300b Amy Siu<\/p>\n<p>Today I clad gladly in black<br \/>\nto tread on murky grounds<\/p>\n<p>A film-thin raincoat, a clear-cling hood<br \/>\ntopped gravely with my boyish swim goggles<br \/>\nand an &#8216;envelope&#8217; mask, a relic from the deadly past<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I try to hold back streaming tears<br \/>\nand cap my billowy blood<\/p>\n<p>But my legs fail me.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down I feel faint<br \/>\nfending off foamy pepper spray and stinging smoke<br \/>\na little sad and surprised<br \/>\nthat it&#8217;s not a solitary soul that they seek<\/p>\n<p>Damn! I don&#8217;t even have a folding umbrella!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u300aA day in September\u300b Amy Siu Today I clad gladly in black to tread on murky grounds A film-thin raincoat, a clear-cling hood topped gravely with my boyish swim goggles and an &#8216;envelope&#8217; mask, a relic from the deadly past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-20969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-english","tag-amy-siu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20971,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20969\/revisions\/20971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}