{"id":1541,"date":"2021-04-18T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:26:16","slug":"in-which-a-mother-smokes-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"In Which a Mother Smokes Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-small-font-size\">After the blood appeared, small spots of uncertainty\nAfter the first slice through the fleshy abdomen\nAfter pacing, smoking, waiting\nAfter the wound widened, the womb exposed\nAfter a year of hope, of almost normal\nAfter a visit to Florida, to her husband\u2019s brother\nand his wife, palm-treed roads, sun a helmet,\nlaughter slapped among waves\nAfter the doctor again, the body mapped,\nthe body exposed, poisoned with hope\nAfter the pills, the vomiting, tiger-clawed, ripped\nThe uncle gets it, a small bag, rolled with\nclumsy fingers, the smoke inhaled\nAfter she coughs, her eyes tear, she bends\ndouble, cannot bear weed, air, anything&nbsp;\n\nTinderbox Poetry Journal\nVol. 4 Issue 4\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the blood appeared, small spots of uncertainty After the first slice through the fleshy abdomen After pacing, smoking, waiting After the wound widened, the womb exposed After a year of hope, of almost normal After a visit to Florida, to her husband\u2019s brother and his wife, palm-treed roads, sun a helmet, laughter slapped among &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Which a Mother Smokes Marijuana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}