{"id":2420,"date":"2020-10-27T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:40:07","slug":"the-glass-of-water-by-d-s-maolalai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2020\/10\/27\/the-glass-of-water-by-d-s-maolalai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The glass of water&#8221; by D.S. Maolalai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>raised<br>in a toast &#8211;<br>and they say<br>it condemns<br>whoever is honoured<br>to death<br>by water.<br>so best<br>to quit drinking<br>immediately.<br>it&#8217;s a far<br>more interesting way<br>to kill off your friends<br>than by giving them cancer<br>or liver<br>disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>DS Maolalai has been called &#8220;prolific&#8221;, though he refers to himself as &#8220;incontinent&#8221; His poetry has been released in two collections, &#8220;Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden&#8221; (Encircle Press, 2016) and &#8220;Sad Havoc Among the Birds&#8221; (Turas Press, 2019). He has been nominated four times for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>raisedin a toast &#8211;and they sayit condemnswhoever is honouredto deathby water.so bestto quit drinkingimmediately.it&#8217;s a farmore interesting wayto kill off your friendsthan by giving them canceror liverdisease. DS Maolalai has been called &#8220;prolific&#8221;, though he refers to himself as &#8220;incontinent&#8221; His poetry has been released in two collections, &#8220;Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2020\/10\/27\/the-glass-of-water-by-d-s-maolalai\/\" 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-2420","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-D2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}