{"id":2892,"date":"2014-01-12T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2014-01-12T19:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:10:42","slug":"poem-why-do-i-remember-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/poem-why-do-i-remember-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Why do I remember this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why do I remember?
\nI’ve carried this,
\n<\/span>and now–see?–here it is.<\/p>\n

\n

Guided by a compulsion (that has never left me)
\nI painted the walls of my mother’s house
\nthe entire length of the hallway;
\nfloating above the floor–I was light.<\/p>\n

You’ll laugh, but it was art.
\nThat’s the simple truth.<\/p>\n

My mother didn’t see it that way,
\nin fact, she was outraged.
\nAgain you’ll laugh, but I was flabbergasted.
\nI didn’t understand her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do I remember? I’ve carried this, and now–see?–here it is. Guided by a compulsion (that has never left me) I painted the walls of my mother’s house the entire length of the hallway; floating above the floor–I was light. You’ll laugh, but it was art. That’s the simple truth. My mother didn’t see it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[139,140,1],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-bio","category-fiction","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5168,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/works-of-art-may-be-offensive\/","url_meta":{"origin":2892,"position":0},"title":"‘Works of art may be offensive”","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I read this laugh-out-loud piece in the NY Times. 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