{"id":43,"date":"2013-01-13T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:11:21","slug":"fields-of-thenar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Fields of Thenar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FieldsofThenar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44\" title=\"FieldsofThenar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FieldsofThenar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Singing Wind Press, Gentile Press, 48 pages, 1980<br \/>\nOut of print.<\/p>\n<p>[reveal heading=&#8221;%image% Selection&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><em><strong>BEIRUT<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Machine guns inhabit the rooftops<br \/>\nlike hungry crows.<br \/>\nBullets peck the library<br \/>\ncity hall the cobble streets<br \/>\nAllah&#8217;s forehead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">To the east<br \/>\nthe mountains belch dust<br \/>\nas artillery fires into the city<br \/>\nplanting the bloom of brown orchids<br \/>\non the beach apartments<br \/>\non the Hilton<br \/>\nin courtyards filled<br \/>\nwith the shattered rosary of bricks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">People are opening their bodies<br \/>\nfor the world to read<br \/>\nthe print still wet and so red<br \/>\nit pours out a stoplight<br \/>\non Broadway and Ninth<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">in downtown Columbia, Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/reveal]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing Wind Press, Gentile Press, 48 pages, 1980 Out of print. [reveal heading=&#8221;%image% Selection&#8221;] BEIRUT Machine guns inhabit the rooftops like hungry crows. Bullets peck the library city hall the cobble streets Allah&#8217;s forehead. To the east the mountains belch <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Fields of Thenar<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}