{"id":129,"date":"2008-08-16T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4gi.wtf\/wp\/?p=129"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:17:24","slug":"desert-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Desert Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: small;\">H<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">IKING GOLDEN BROWN HILLS,<\/span> sun dazzling, dry breeze hot\r\nI kneel before a great flat stone and, struck from behind\r\nI am surprised to find my heart on that stone, rhythmically\r\nPulsing, wet, alive, dislocated, ugly\r\n\r\nIt should be sterile, that heart, but it gathers chaff\r\nAnd grains of sand, wind blown, and tiny pebbles from\r\nThe rock on which it beats. Its sticky wetness defies\r\nThe dehydrating air, the desiccating sun, the drying dirt\r\n\r\nI pick it up, hurl it toward a sea that lies beyond\r\nThe horizon. Borne aloft, it is a miracle that it plashes\r\nOut beyond the turbid, crashing waves and half sinks\r\nHalf floats in the moist milieu, shedding sand and sticks\r\n\r\nBeating still, wet still, living still\r\n<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8212; <span class=\"twikiNewLink\">Ron<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; 16 Aug 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIKING GOLDEN BROWN HILLS, sun dazzling, dry breeze hot I kneel before a great flat stone and, struck from behind I am surprised to find my heart on that stone, rhythmically Pulsing, wet, alive, dislocated, ugly It should be sterile, that heart, but it gathers chaff And grains of sand, wind blown, and tiny pebbles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Desert Heart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}