{"id":1187,"date":"2019-05-25T00:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T00:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2019-05-24T01:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:40:40","slug":"two-poems-by-john-speredakos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/05\/25\/two-poems-by-john-speredakos\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm by John Jay Speredakos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"> <br><em>JOHN JAY SPEREDAKOS is a NY-based professional actor and writer with a BA from Muhlenberg College and an MFA from Rutgers University. He has appeared on and off-Broadway, in films, TV, commercials and radio dramas and is a devoted daddy to his daughter, Calliope. Recent publications include poetry in Typishly, Cathexis Northwest Press, Chaleur Magazine, Prometheus Dreaming, River Heron Review, Gravitas: Volume 18 Issue 1, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, and upcoming in Bluestem, Alternating Current, Portrait of New England and Duck Lake Journal. More info, photos, etc. can be found on IMDb at:&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.me\/johnsperedakos\" target=\"_blank\"><em>imdb.me\/johnsperedakos<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Thunderstorm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God\u2019s stomach growls<br>as He opens and shuts<br>His refrigerator door<br>several times.<br>What will happen&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what dams will burst<br>what crops will fail<br>what ice cream scoops<br>will topple<br>from their cones<br>and plummet<br>unlicked <br>to the pavement&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when He realizes<br>He\u2019s out of mayo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN JAY SPEREDAKOS is a NY-based professional actor and writer with a BA from Muhlenberg College and an MFA from Rutgers University. He has appeared on and off-Broadway, in films, TV, commercials and radio dramas and is a devoted daddy to his daughter, Calliope. Recent publications include poetry in Typishly, Cathexis Northwest Press, Chaleur Magazine, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/05\/25\/two-poems-by-john-speredakos\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-j9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}