{"id":1847,"date":"2018-10-29T08:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2018-10-28T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:12:48","slug":"our-lady-of-the-winter-squash-by-jenny-blackford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of the Winter Squash by Jenny Blackford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Cucurbita_Pumpkins-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1849\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Cucurbita_Pumpkins-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/640px-Cucurbita_Pumpkins.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On every stair and fence and wall<br \/>\nicons and idols remind us of the fleshy<br \/>\nseed-stuffed bounty of our Goddess<br \/>\nduring this her yearly festival<br \/>\nand sacred celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the chrome and marble foyer<br \/>\nsee the altar loaded<br \/>\nwith black and orange offerings<br \/>\nto Our Lady of the Winter Squash.<br \/>\nOur golden goddess feeds the world.<\/p>\n<p>Give Her bones and blood<br \/>\nthe best foods for the soil.<br \/>\nPlease Her with images<br \/>\nof her sacred animals: crawly spiders<br \/>\nin massed grey webs<\/p>\n<p>scattered with dry-sucked corpses,<br \/>\nflapping bats that feed on flowers, fruit<br \/>\nand blood,<br \/>\nand arch-backed cats<br \/>\nas fecund as the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On every stair and fence and wall icons and idols remind us of the fleshy seed-stuffed bounty of our Goddess during this her yearly festival and sacred celebration. Even in the chrome and marble foyer see the altar loaded with black and orange offerings to Our Lady of the Winter Squash. Our golden goddess feeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}