{"id":536,"date":"2024-01-12T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/?p=536"},"modified":"2024-01-13T04:09:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T04:09:04","slug":"still-better-this-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/still-better-this-way-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Better This Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blood-and-bourbon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blood &amp; Bourbon<\/a>\u00a0Issue #13<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I\u2019m being honest<br>which you know I am<br><br>none of us expected<br>you to walk in<br><br>dripping from the rain and<br>drenched to the skin<br><br>ripping off your coat and<br>looking too thin<br><br>sitting on a stool and<br>closing your eyes<br><br>having no idea<br>we were nearby<br><br>ordering a drink and<br>swirling the glass<br><br>nodding at the server<br>when she walked past<br><br>listening to chatter<br>watching the game<br><br>bristling when someone<br>shouted my name<br><br>turning just in time to<br>rid any doubt<br><br>staring in despondence<br>as I walked out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in\u00a0Blood &amp; Bourbon\u00a0Issue #13 If I\u2019m being honestwhich you know I am none of us expectedyou to walk in dripping from the rain anddrenched to the skin ripping off your coat andlooking too thin sitting on a stool andclosing your eyes having no ideawe were nearby ordering a drink andswirling the glass nodding at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}