{"id":16,"date":"2009-04-11T20:54:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-04-11T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:54:20","slug":"eating-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Eating the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rainbow snake, the trout coils<br \/>\naround my plate.<br \/>\nPeel back the papery skin:<br \/>\nlift the cloudy plan of a head<br \/>\nwith its eyes like rain.<br \/>\nPull out the ancient<br \/>\nfamiliar skeleton.<\/p>\n<p>The fish is friendly<br \/>\nwith its pink flesh, frightening<br \/>\nwith its bending mesh of clear-cut<br \/>\nbeginnings and ends.<br \/>\nThis morning, history blends<br \/>\nwith tarragon, lemon and cream.<br \/>\nAnd it swims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney Rainbow snake, the trout coils around my plate. Peel back the papery skin: lift the cloudy plan of a head with its eyes like rain. Pull out the ancient familiar skeleton. The fish is friendly with its pink flesh, frightening with its bending mesh of clear-cut beginnings and ends. This morning, history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating_the_past","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}