{"id":577,"date":"2012-03-19T18:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2012-03-02T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T01:04:03","slug":"the-object-of-obsession-by-scott-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"The Object of Obsession by Scott Owens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever became of Oberon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Indian boy,<br \/>\nthe one Titania loved so much<br \/>\nshe bed a donkey rather than give him up,<br \/>\nthen, returning to her senses<br \/>\nseemed not to care at all?<\/p>\n<p>There was no particular talent<br \/>\nhe had, no special gift or blessing,<br \/>\nbeyond quiet charm and boyish<br \/>\ngood looks.  There was the unfortunate birth,<br \/>\nthe luck of being in the right place,<br \/>\nthe right time, catching the scout\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye<br \/>\nwhen she felt vulnerable, old, uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>But was he, after all the fuss and fret,<br \/>\nthe elemental war of poisoned eyes,<br \/>\nonly a lark, a fad, the proverbial<br \/>\nflash in the pan, midlife<br \/>\ninfatuation with impossible youth,<br \/>\nsomething we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d inevitably outgrow?<\/p>\n<p>He became the darling of the internet,<br \/>\nGanymede without the cups,<br \/>\naging into oblivion.<br \/>\nHe gained a few pounds,<br \/>\ngot lost in his own celebrity,<br \/>\nnever found love or meaning,<br \/>\nfinally died the death no poet<br \/>\nfears, alone and overexposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever became of Oberon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Indian boy, the one Titania loved so much she bed a donkey rather than give him up, then, returning to her senses seemed not to care at all? There was no particular talent he had, no special gift or blessing, beyond quiet charm and boyish good looks. There was the unfortunate [&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-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}