{"id":159,"date":"2019-06-01T00:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/?p=159"},"modified":"2019-05-23T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T01:00:45","slug":"caprock-by-jennifer-debie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2019\/06\/01\/caprock-by-jennifer-debie\/","title":{"rendered":"Caprock by Jennifer deBie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Caprock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the sky\u2019s so big<br>you can watch the earth curve<br>away from it,<br>and because farmers grow their own crop circles,<br>and Friday night stadiums<br>can be seen for fifty miles<br>on a clear night,<br>and the nights are almost always clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the land splits,<br>pushes up at Quitaque<br>into the open spaces\u2014<br>because the break in the earth<br>is red there,<br>red as a coyote\u2019s innards,<br>the exposed space between<br>ageless ribs, laid out alongside Highway 86<br>northbound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the bones <br>of my people and the horses they rode,<br>and the cattle they raised<br>and the homes they lived in<br>are scattered under <br>a sky unbroken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Jennifer deBie is a novelist, poet, and native Texan currently transplanted to Ireland for her schooling. She was born and raised in the town where Johnny met June, but is much more interested in the local serial killer that was never caught.  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177,"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-159","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\/brent-cox-201097-unsplash.jpg?fit=4000%2C6000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}