{"id":1546,"date":"2021-04-24T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2021-04-24T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:43:23","slug":"succulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"Succulent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The hot Long Island sun pokes\nfingers into sandy ground,\nstirs dust in my young throat\nas I kick high the swing, hit\n\nbottom on the downward fly.\nWhite jelly bread rolls around\nmy hungry tongue, washed\nwith purple kool-aid. I grow\n\nwhere green grass won\u2019t,\nnourished on margarine, wonder\nbaked in bread, Saturday morning\ncartoons, the buzz of test patterns\n\nin my head. Father builds a shed\nbeneath the staircase, packs\nin rakes and brooms, bikes\nand wasps and whispered things\n\nthat hang from nail hooks shredded\nlike cardboard Halloween skeletons\nthat glow in the dark. Honey-\nsuckle with fuchsia hearts grows on\n\nmy best friend\u2019s vines. We pluck\nthem to suck the sweetness free,\nrub the juice into our skin, run\nwith green feet beneath sprinklers,\u00a0\n\nlater, sip ice tea, nibble toast\nthick with butter, play with candy\nbeads and lipstick, then practice-\nkiss our arms, grape and tangerine.\n\n\nMiramar\nNo. 8 2019\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hot Long Island sun pokes fingers into sandy ground, stirs dust in my young throat as I kick high the swing, hit bottom on the downward fly. White jelly bread rolls around my hungry tongue, washed with purple kool-aid. I grow where green grass won\u2019t, nourished on margarine, wonder baked in bread, Saturday morning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Succulent&#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-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}