{"id":1507,"date":"2019-10-01T01:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2019-09-19T02:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:03:17","slug":"sitting-never-won-any-wars-by-eric-merriweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/10\/01\/sitting-never-won-any-wars-by-eric-merriweather\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting Never Won Any Wars by Eric Merriweather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Eric Merriweather is an emerging writer as well as a recent graduate, with a BA in English, from Kennesaw State University, in Georgia. His aim is to become a novelist and an established poet. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Sitting Never Won Any Wars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Languid arches, <br>\nA heel inclined<br>\nTo tell a tale of mounds tamed<br>\nAnd marches famed to pass<br>\nCallused pads<br>\nTo a younger generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chipped toenails, from scraping concrete<br>\n(Soaked in hose water)<br>\nSing a song of<br>\nFeet tried and put to test<br>\nOver coals and<br>\nFreeze-dried pig&#8217;s feet<br>\n(That never had any soles), <br>\nPickle jars with human hearts<br>\nLong-since pickled &amp; broken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no blood to the legs,<br>\nThe body falls<br>\nPrey to sheathed tingly needles<br>\nAt home in its cushioned &amp; reclined repose<br>\nTo ponder a swollen tiredness<br>\nThe shoes have never shown<br>\nFrom a war never fought by the lackadaisical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Merriweather is an emerging writer as well as a recent graduate, with a BA in English, from Kennesaw State University, in Georgia. His aim is to become a novelist and an established poet. Sitting Never Won Any Wars Languid arches, A heel inclined To tell a tale of mounds tamed And marches famed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/10\/01\/sitting-never-won-any-wars-by-eric-merriweather\/\" 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-1507","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-oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}