{"id":600,"date":"2012-07-09T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2012-07-06T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:28:40","slug":"trouble-in-golem-town-by-deborah-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in Golem Town, By Deborah Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">It was quiet in Golem Town. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Clay feet treading along the<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">soundless, circular, mud pathways, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">plodding patiently towards the end of the days.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Faces stretched tight into happy grimaces, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Each night, re-writing the words of their <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">lives along the hum of the static-fresh TV.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Quiet in Golem Town, until the fancy girl <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">came with her pinching fingers grabbing <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">scripts from gawping, gaping mouths. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Lightening in her brain instead of simple silt. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Smiling, rewriting their rhythmic respectable rules. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">See the clay men fighting, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">slow fists, brother against brother, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">for the honour of rubbing their mud hands <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">against her white dress. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">See their black glass eyes, smashed.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Gems make a pretty necklace for a fancy girl<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">with dirty wings. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quiet in Golem Town. Clay feet treading along the soundless, circular, mud pathways, plodding patiently towards the end of the days. Faces stretched tight into happy grimaces, Each night, re-writing the words of their lives along the hum of the static-fresh TV. Quiet in Golem Town, until the fancy girl came with her [&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-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}