{"id":1200,"date":"2019-05-27T00:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2019-05-26T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T00:27:46","slug":"oxtail-stew-by-robin-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/05\/27\/oxtail-stew-by-robin-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxtail Stew by Robin Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Robin Ray is writer from Port Townsend, WA. His works have appeared online at Red Fez, Darkest Before the Dawn, Fairy Tale Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review and elsewhere. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Oxtail Stew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahem.<br>Let me explain something to you.<br>What I couldn\u2019t convey in this parasitic<br>English is that I\u2019m not yours, I don\u2019t <br>belong to you, and have never been yours,<br>and like crystallized Lladr\u00f3 in your <br>\u00e9tag\u00e8re, I choose to emit scattered light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You acknowledge I\u2019m a burden to this<br>complex I reside in. Maybe I\u2019m the nylon<br>mesh you cannot stain or the unopened<br>cans of Oaxaca chili that\u2019s supposed to<br>weather us through a nuclear holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could be your path to a hidden copper<br>mine. You know, I can somersault through<br>your suburban backyard and make you<br>believe I\u2019m a modern-day Marcel Marceau<br>rehearsing some new routine while eyeing<br>your valuables, but not today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, that pungent odor assaulting<br>your fragile nostrils, causing you to thrust<br>your windows ajar, is oxtail stew and steamed<br>cabbage. Remorse? Nope. Yours to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Ray is writer from Port Townsend, WA. His works have appeared online at Red Fez, Darkest Before the Dawn, Fairy Tale Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review and elsewhere. Oxtail Stew Ahem.Let me explain something to you.What I couldn\u2019t convey in this parasiticEnglish is that I\u2019m not yours, I don\u2019t belong to you, and have never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/05\/27\/oxtail-stew-by-robin-ray\/\" 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-1200","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-jm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","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=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}