{"id":136,"date":"2014-10-01T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-10-01T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:56:15","slug":"large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large<br \/>\nLarge enough to eat in and then some<br \/>\nAcres of naked floor<br \/>\nLaminate<br \/>\nFlowering brown circular stains, a memento to careless tipped hands holding mugs full of coffee<br \/>\nThe old wood table sits shrunken in the corner<br \/>\nPopulated with cereal boxes and pages torn from spiral notebooks<br \/>\nWindows, dust streaked, illuminated by the sunlight reflecting through a yellow circle of hanging stained glass<br \/>\nPicked out of a box on the sidewalk marked, \u201cname your price\u201d<br \/>\nElectric spirals or was it iron crosshairs over flame?<br \/>\nI don\u2019t remember<br \/>\nProbably the former.<\/p>\n<p>She was a grand old dame humbled by generations of rapacious landlords gauging students passing through like ships in the night, to her<br \/>\nShe was an ancient oak in which we cooked and laughed and danced and wept<br \/>\nWith serious house business around the kitchen table met<br \/>\nMy lover and I, relishing the sound of that, \u201cmy lover and I\u201d<br \/>\nWe cooked the meals of the newly initiated<br \/>\nRecently liberated<br \/>\nMaruchan ramen and Campbell\u2019s tomato soup<br \/>\nJust looking back the sodium dries my mouth<br \/>\nI\u2019m thirsty for spaghetti and meatballs with fresh baked garlic bread<br \/>\nA bottle of cheap red wine<br \/>\nFriends with the closeness only youth can afford<br \/>\nTime enough to spare<br \/>\nTime enough to discuss Foucault and Patricia Hill Collins and satellite States and gay pride<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a new era<br \/>\nThe 80s are over<br \/>\nAnd anything and everything is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large Large enough to eat in and then some Acres of naked floor Laminate Flowering brown circular stains, a memento to careless tipped hands holding mugs full of coffee The old wood table sits shrunken in the corner Populated with cereal boxes and pages torn from spiral notebooks Windows, dust streaked, illuminated by the sunlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freaksoftechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}