{"id":487,"date":"2018-10-30T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=487"},"modified":"2018-10-06T21:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T21:24:45","slug":"two-by-graham-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/10\/30\/two-by-graham-duncan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two by Graham Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Graham Duncan is an alumnus of Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and a graduate student at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. While at Lander, he was awarded the 2017 Margaret M. Bryant Award, and his poetry was recently featured in &#8220;South Carolina&#8217;s Best Emerging Poets.&#8221; He currently serves as a staff writer and editorial assistant for Lander&#8217;s alumni magazine, and can be reached at <a class=\"sbm-text link link-color accessible-link\" href=\"mailto:ghduncan001@converse.edu\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ghduncan001@converse.edu<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Familiar Tunes<\/h3>\n<p>My music teacher,<br \/>\nduring class changes,<br \/>\nwould quietly hum a tune<br \/>\nto herself and passersby\u2014<\/p>\n<p>or whistle it through<br \/>\nher nose, rather.<\/p>\n<p>A familiar one,<br \/>\nthough I still can\u2019t<br \/>\nthink of where<br \/>\nI\u2019ve heard it before.<\/p>\n<p>I have a song stuck<br \/>\nin my head.<br \/>\nHow do I get it out?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, that depends,\u201d<br \/>\nshe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you like it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Stains Incurred from our National Pastime<\/h3>\n<p>Enjoying a ballgame one<br \/>\nsunny Saturday afternoon,<br \/>\nI take a bite of my hot dog<br \/>\nbeing careful not to<br \/>\ndrip mustard onto my<br \/>\nnew white shirt, while<\/p>\n<p>a heavy-set lady<br \/>\nseated behind me<br \/>\nleans forward and<br \/>\nwhispers into my ear<br \/>\n\u201cMitt Romney hates women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Duncan is an alumnus of Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and a graduate student at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. While at Lander, he was awarded the 2017 Margaret M. Bryant Award, and his poetry was recently featured in &#8220;South Carolina&#8217;s Best Emerging Poets.&#8221; He currently serves as a staff writer and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/10\/30\/two-by-graham-duncan\/\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-7R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}