{"id":36,"date":"2009-04-11T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:02:34","slug":"speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odd, dark things remind me of you.<br \/>\nThe tips of trees thinned out<br \/>\nagainst\u00a0 an early winter sky,<br \/>\n\u201cGoodbye to This Island,\u201d<br \/>\nsung in Hawaiian,<br \/>\nthe smell of incense burning<br \/>\nin the echoey recesses of a church.<\/p>\n<p>You raised me to believe that the dead<br \/>\nspeak.<br \/>\nI ask as your only daughter.<br \/>\nCome back and tell me \u2013<br \/>\nDid you secretly baptize my children?<br \/>\nIs there such thing as an island paradise?<br \/>\nWhich path should I take through these trees?<\/p>\n<p><em> Appeared in Yankee Magazine;<br \/>\nJanuary, 1998<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney Odd, dark things remind me of you. The tips of trees thinned out against\u00a0 an early winter sky, \u201cGoodbye to This Island,\u201d sung in Hawaiian, the smell of incense burning in the echoey recesses of a church. You raised me to believe that the dead speak. I ask as your only daughter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speak","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}