{"id":557,"date":"2019-09-05T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-05-26T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:48:40","slug":"cutting-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In mid-September <br> We cut apart a withered elm<br> Amid exuberant maples splashing<br> Multicolored verses <br> Into the face of the sun.<br> &nbsp;<br> Split elm smells like horse, <br> Says my young son. <br> He is right; it is the smell of the core,<br> As rocks have in their veins <br> The blood of other rocks.<br> &nbsp;<br> Oak and maple split like glass;<br> Elm takes your wedge<br> And swallows it.<br> Beyond watching grass grow,<br> Nothing matters.<br> &nbsp;<br> &nbsp;<br> In <em>North Coast Review<\/em>, #20, DEC 2001 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-September We cut apart a withered elm Amid exuberant maples splashing Multicolored verses Into the face of the sun. &nbsp; Split elm smells like horse, Says my young son. He is right; it is the smell of the core, As rocks have in their veins The blood of other rocks. &nbsp; Oak and maple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pahwNU-8Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesbrueggemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}