{"id":5818,"date":"2020-11-29T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T10:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2020-11-29T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T11:38:53","slug":"down-the-line-ladder-pink-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/29\/down-the-line-ladder-pink-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the Line\/Ladder\/Pink Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Down the Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catherine was sitting on the sweaty train<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for it to depart<\/p>\n<p>There was no breeze and the air was stale<\/p>\n<p>As it is in the city during the summer months<\/p>\n<p>In a week she would be in Cape Cod with her partner<\/p>\n<p>Her parents would fuss over them<\/p>\n<p>And the thought of working in the real estate office<\/p>\n<p>Would be a million miles distant<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ladder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hank was slowly descending from the tower<\/p>\n<p>The Olivier sisters were on the roof below<\/p>\n<p>He knew that if he turned that he might fall<\/p>\n<p>So he saved their beauty for another day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pink Motel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sue Joe Thomas was hosing the desert dust from the car<\/p>\n<p>As John Joe Thomas studied the sandy mirages nearby<\/p>\n<p>They both wanted to stay at the pink motel<\/p>\n<p>But they needed to be in the city by nightfall<\/p>\n<p>As their parents were visiting from New York<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down the Line Catherine was sitting on the sweaty train Waiting for it to depart There was no breeze and the air was stale As it is in the city during the summer months In a week she would be in Cape Cod with her partner Her parents would fuss over them And the thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}