{"id":1549,"date":"2021-04-24T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2021-04-24T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:45:53","slug":"country-girl-thinks-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Country Girl Thinks of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-left\">                                     <em>after <\/em><strong><em>Girl on Porch <\/em><\/strong><em>by Eudora Welty<\/em>\n\nShe perches, solitary, on that dusty city porch\nthinks of foxes, owls, rabbits, coons, hears\ntheir night songs, their rustlings in the deep brush,\nfeels the pine needles soft beneath her feet,\n\nthinks on that slice of marble-cake she just ate\nfrom the plate with the glued together crack\nthat ran straight between the two blue dragons\nlike some tall cloud, skinny, blown jagged in the wind\nwhile she sat on the red seated chair in Aunty Nadine\u2019s kitchen.\n\nNo wind now, only the ragged dancing of heat,\nthick electric wires hung like strings from poles,\u00a0\nwinking silver in the thickness of sun.\n\nThat cake no match for the stream that she saw daily,\nswift and burbling, sweeter than any store bought gum,\nsweet as the way Uncle Jacob would grab her under the arms\nand swing her high, even after haying, with the sweat\nlike a splash of jug whiskey over his shirt, laughing,\n\ncalling her his best girl, even when she wore\nher brother\u2019s cast off overalls, her hair caught\nin tangles, a burdock bound up behind. He made her\u00a0\nlight as a bobwhite, waiting to lift wing to the sky.\n\n\nMiramar\nNo. 8   2019\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Girl on Porch by Eudora Welty She perches, solitary, on that dusty city porch thinks of foxes, owls, rabbits, coons, hears their night songs, their rustlings in the deep brush, feels the pine needles soft beneath her feet, thinks on that slice of marble-cake she just ate from the plate with the glued together &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Country Girl Thinks of Home&#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-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}