{"id":2080,"date":"2013-07-21T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2013-07-21T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:24:41","slug":"an-exotic-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"An exotic vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"1old_couple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1old_couple.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2081\" alt=\"1old_couple\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1old_couple-250x222.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">An exotic vacation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> No one to referee that game, <br \/> Poor fledglings, with their heads thrown back <br \/> And mastered hips joined to their shame, <br \/> Are lonely partners on the rack. <\/p>\n<p> Who is that watchman of the night, <br \/> Stretched out, staring so vacantly <br \/> From his filled bed until the light <br \/> Of day permit activity? <\/p>\n<p> And who lies breathing at his side, <br \/> In sleep a kind of ruffed grouse? <br \/> Is it the girl that neatly glides <br \/> About the duties of her house? <\/p>\n<p> They married decent strangers; she <br \/> For images of his despair <br \/> Without her, for his good name; he <br \/> For guilt and the curling of her hair. <\/p>\n<p> Yearly to interpose delight <br \/> They go upon their honeymoon <br \/> Again, where things are never quite <br \/> The same although they should be soon. <\/p>\n<p> And a small cottage has sprung up <br \/> Near a favorite swimming cove; <br \/> Every summer they come up <br \/> To localize their straying love. <\/p>\n<p> On starry nights after their meal <br \/> Old rituals of hand in hand <br \/> Begin and what they think they feel <br \/> Makes them lie upon cool sand. <\/p>\n<p> So they tumble by that shore <br \/> Of the uncaring upland lake <br \/> As if it were not done before <br \/> And each moans for the other&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Henry Braun<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}