{"id":5639,"date":"2020-02-28T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2020-02-28T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:26:58","slug":"ladies-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/ladies-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DogLaneCafe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DogLaneCafe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DogLaneCafe.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DogLaneCafe-300x342.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DogLaneCafe-250x285.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>(For Cathy)<\/p>\n<p>Limned in the undersea glow<br \/>\nof the choice, fish-tank table<br \/>\nat the DLC, we meet<br \/>\nto swap news or secrets or<br \/>\nmaybe truths. We dispel our<br \/>\nmothers, invoke our children,<br \/>\ncompare mittens. What do I<br \/>\nwant in a real friend, really?<br \/>\nSomeone less heartless than I.<br \/>\nOne clear-sighted and pensive,<br \/>\nwho wields both hammer and pen,<br \/>\nwho calms her anxious student,<br \/>\nwho breathes French <em>toute seule<\/em>, and paints<br \/>\ncabinets blue. For me\u2019s the friend<br \/>\nwho respects hibernation<br \/>\nand stealth, who nudges me toward<br \/>\nmy black fears and back again:<br \/>\nhomeland daft, attics burned, brains<br \/>\nrotted. We are not children<br \/>\nof the old sort anymore,<br \/>\npast innocence certainly<br \/>\nbut hopeful still, yearning yet,<br \/>\nand wise enough to believe<br \/>\na cold hand will find a warm<br \/>\none this rainy afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(For Cathy) Limned in the undersea glow of the choice, fish-tank table at the DLC, we meet to swap news or secrets or maybe truths. We dispel our mothers, invoke our children, compare mittens. What do I want in a real friend, really? Someone less heartless than I. One clear-sighted and pensive, who wields both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1049],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthmarked","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5642,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}