{"id":1498,"date":"2019-09-29T01:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2019-09-26T01:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T01:11:13","slug":"1498","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/29\/1498\/","title":{"rendered":"goodbye to a friend by Alisha Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Alisha Kumar is a junior in high school in Chicago. She writes poetry at 2 am, in the middle of storms, and when she&#8217;s home alone because, really, are there any better times? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>goodbye to a friend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i brought a knife to a gunfight<br> you brought a quiver and a bow<br> (maybe we\u2019re more alike than we think)<br> dark room, bloody walls, overdramatic<br> just the way you liked it, yeah?<br> the carnage invisible<br> to everyone but the fighters<br> (a battle with room for two)<br> my riposte against your poisoned arrows<br> i dealt in pain<br> but you deal in death.<br> does bleeding out<br> mean i was alive then?<br> that IT didn\u2019t swallow me whole?<br> that i was still human?<br> you didn\u2019t seem to think so.<br> (but i got the last word, <br> not that it matters.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alisha Kumar is a junior in high school in Chicago. She writes poetry at 2 am, in the middle of storms, and when she&#8217;s home alone because, really, are there any better times? goodbye to a friend i brought a knife to a gunfight you brought a quiver and a bow (maybe we\u2019re more alike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/29\/1498\/\" 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-1498","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\/sa867U-1498","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","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=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}