{"id":40,"date":"2008-08-11T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:42:26","slug":"storyspace-the-pigeon-and-the-shoe-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/08\/storyspace-the-pigeon-and-the-shoe-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: <em>The Pigeon and The Shoe<\/em> &#8211; poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">E<\/span>ven though I&#8217;ve not worked on this hypertext short story a while, my mind is still on it and I realized that I had written a quickie poem about Pittsburgh that brought out another character that just might show up in this hypertext as a bit player:<\/p>\n<h3>Small Change<\/h3>\n<p>Oil the focus of a brief conversation<br \/>slips into a dream that night<br \/>of a one-legged black man in Pittsburgh<br \/>still swinging on crutches like a pendulum<br \/>through the slick surface of day<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t I dig deeper than a handful<br \/>of change, quarters and copper and dimes?<br \/>Even once, stop for a moment <br \/>and pull out wrinkled green paper or<br \/>simply ask him his name?<\/p>\n<p>What makes memory fly like the swallow<br \/>and silverflash upstream with the salmon<br \/>what makes me want to return back<br \/>to Pittsburgh and talk to an old man<br \/>before the cold winter winds come home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">E<\/span>ven though I&#8217;ve not worked on this hypertext short story a while, my mind is still on it and I realized that I had written a quickie poem about Pittsburgh that brought out another character that just might show up in this hypertext as a bit player: Small Change Oil the focus of a brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace","tag-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}