{"id":1246,"date":"2019-06-11T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2019-06-05T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:24:35","slug":"two-poems-by-renee-butner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/06\/11\/two-poems-by-renee-butner\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltz by Renee Butner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Renee Butner particularly loves the ocean, cooking, painting, her three young grandsons and dark chocolate. She and her husband own a Kilwins franchise in Winston-Salem, NC, where they reside, so this fondness for chocolate has a perfect outlet. She is a member of the NC Haiku Society and Winston-Salem Writers and has had works published in numerous publications. Her website is <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneebutner.wordpress.com\/\"><em>www.reneebutner.wordpress.com<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Waltz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nightly I dip<br>and turn in a slow waltz<br>with insomnia.<br>He spins me in his arms,<br>I grasp his shoulder<br>too tightly<br>and his clasp at my waist<br>is firm<br>and unyielding.<br>We glide and revolve<br>in and out of a haze<br>of consciousness.<br>I attempt a monotonous<br>count in my head <br>backwards,<br>forwards.<br>He the victor,<br>I the spoils.<br>There is a tantalizing lightening<br>in the dusky sky<br>to the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renee Butner particularly loves the ocean, cooking, painting, her three young grandsons and dark chocolate. She and her husband own a Kilwins franchise in Winston-Salem, NC, where they reside, so this fondness for chocolate has a perfect outlet. She is a member of the NC Haiku Society and Winston-Salem Writers and has had works published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/06\/11\/two-poems-by-renee-butner\/\" 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-1246","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-k6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","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=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}