{"id":3282,"date":"2013-10-27T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T07:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2013-10-27T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T07:17:31","slug":"two-pairs-of-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Two Pairs Of Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/images4.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3284\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/images4.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Two Pairs Of Socks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour poetry sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?&#8221;<br \/>her eyebrows knitting a sweater<br \/>and two pairs of socks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your poetry section, it sucks.<br \/>Not enough for a good fire,<br \/>though god knows,<br \/>most of it should have been burned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t pick the books,<br \/>and who are you anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody,<br \/>you on the other hand must be the duster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her hand moves toward a letter opener.<br \/>\u201cI&#8217;m sorry\u201d I said<br \/>bringing us back from the brink,<br \/>\u201cI have these books I want\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate charges&#8221; she says triumphantly,<br \/>\u201cthat will be ten dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to buy the library\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t get any more til you pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stomping them back to their shelves<br \/>I peel the label from the 1946 winner,<br \/>so the Pulitzer prize is now where it belongs,<br \/>a gold medallion on the Alden Nowlan.<\/p>\n<p>Out the door, no books, just two pairs of socks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Tom Hemeon<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/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-3282","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\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}