{"id":147,"date":"2019-06-01T00:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/?p=147"},"modified":"2019-05-21T03:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:27:18","slug":"warriors-by-william-blome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2019\/06\/01\/warriors-by-william-blome\/","title":{"rendered":"A Snippet of Yankee Conversation at the Siege of Veracruz by William Blome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>A Snippet of Yankee Conversation at the Siege of Veracruz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what about these Mexican girls<br>makes them so drop-dead sexy,<br>one marine yells to another<br>during the bonfire heat of battle.<br>O nothing rocket-craft and spaceship passengers<br>won\u2019t be tallying up, then jotting down<br>in a century two or three, my corporal,<br>and just pray to God the chicas hereabout<br>stay marshmallow-soft and caterpillar-hairy<br>and keep beckoning us to enter as we crawl forward<br>with hunks of fools gold goodies in our pockets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>William C. Blome writes poetry and short fiction. He lives wedged between Baltimore and Washington, DC, and he is a master\u2019s degree graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His work has previously seen the light of day in such fine little mags as Poetry London, PRISM International, In Between Hangovers, Fiction Southeast, Roanoke Review, and The California Quarterly. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/bernardo-ramonfaur-436536-unsplash.jpg?fit=4835%2C3153&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}