{"id":2697,"date":"2021-04-17T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2021-04-09T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:51:24","slug":"last-dance-by-karen-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2021\/04\/17\/last-dance-by-karen-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Last Dance&#8221; by Karen Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><em>Quelle demoiselle<\/em> the man next to me says. He<br>keeps the rhythm with one hand, taps his foot.<br><em>Want to dance?<\/em> he asks me. I quake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with passion unspooling.<br><em>No<\/em>, I say <em>I don&#8217;t dance, don\u2019t<br>think, don&#8217;t blink.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I take a sip of tipple to the music.<br><em>Are you here for me?<\/em> dapple<br>my hips and smile,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Let&#8217;s ride the pony the appaloosa the<br>stallion <\/em>I say, <em>let\u2019s play the beast<br>with two backs<\/em>. He says, <em>do you want to pavane waltz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>rhumba with me, I will dip you trip<br>you. Kiss you.<\/em> We Spanish flu flamingo,<br>Malaysian gavotte tie the knot, Viennese cakewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Karen Miller is a 76 year old retired lawyer living on Lake Champlain in Vermont with her cranky but lovable husband and Izzy the cat. In the summer she gardens and swims. In the winter she looks out the window.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quelle demoiselle the man next to me says. Hekeeps the rhythm with one hand, taps his foot.Want to dance? he asks me. I quake with passion unspooling.No, I say I don&#8217;t dance, don\u2019tthink, don&#8217;t blink. I take a sip of tipple to the music.Are you here for me? dapplemy hips and smile, Let&#8217;s ride the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2021\/04\/17\/last-dance-by-karen-miller\/\" 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-2697","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-Hv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","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=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}