{"id":1628,"date":"2013-03-07T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:01:36","slug":"pick-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/pick-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/about\/author-biographies\/\">Katie Kapugi\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whiskey in my glass\u2013<br \/>\ntiny icebergs click to the deep beat<br \/>\nof some forgotten song that lures<br \/>\nthe lusty to grind their hips,<br \/>\nto make come-hither eyes,<br \/>\nand writhe with shock wave skin-<br \/>\nevery molecule pressured into<br \/>\nmovement by uninvited sound waves<br \/>\nAnd how does one hold oneself\u2026<br \/>\ncomfortably?<\/p>\n<p>Do not slump your shoulders:<br \/>\nYet<br \/>\neven the mountains slump,<br \/>\ntrembling in aftershock,<br \/>\nand change the contour of<br \/>\nwhat has been.<br \/>\nMy stone bones ache for ground.<\/p>\n<p>Do not cross your arms:<br \/>\nBut<br \/>\nbeneath this shield of limbs,<br \/>\nout here where bodies\u2028matter most,\u2028my solitude is obvious,<br \/>\nseen as a gesture of invitation,<br \/>\nand\u2028I am waiting,<\/p>\n<p>ever waiting,\u2028for the eyes that do\u2028not see a perfect mask<br \/>\non my imperfect face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Kapugi\u00a0 Whiskey in my glass\u2013 tiny icebergs click to the deep beat of some forgotten song that lures the lusty to grind their hips, to make come-hither eyes, and writhe with shock wave skin- every molecule pressured into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/pick-me-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}