{"id":17387,"date":"2025-02-25T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:11:15","slug":"poem-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/poem-rental\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Rental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rental<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Motes swirled in windows<br \/>\nlike stars in <em>The Starry Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Water stains framed<br \/>\nmirrors in bursts of gray-gold.<\/p>\n<p>The landlord&#8217;s lips were thin,<br \/>\nher lipstick coral.<\/p>\n<p>She braved the tropical storm<br \/>\nto unlock closets:<br \/>\nher Waterford crystal.<\/p>\n<p>Branches needed pruning<br \/>\nbut all I seemed to do<\/p>\n<p>was dream of Heathcliff.<br \/>\nI never scrubbed<\/p>\n<p>or mowed enough.<br \/>\nI leaned my bike\u2014created tracks\u2014<br \/>\nagainst the accent wall.<\/p>\n<p>She said No.<br \/>\nNo need to search<\/p>\n<p>for my replacement.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;d done living with my choices.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rental Motes swirled in windows like stars in The Starry Night. Water stains framed mirrors in bursts of gray-gold. The landlord&#8217;s lips were thin, her lipstick coral. She braved the tropical storm to unlock closets: her Waterford crystal. Branches needed pruning but all I seemed to do was dream of Heathcliff. I never scrubbed or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1448,1449,2331,2332,2333,2334,7320,7341,7745],"class_list":["post-17387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poem","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-deborah-diemont-cassandra-voices","tag-deborah-diemont-poem","tag-deborah-diemont-poet","tag-deborah-diemont-rent","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-rental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}