{"id":3437,"date":"2013-11-30T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2013-11-30T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T06:59:55","slug":"pass-the-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"il_340x270.513823462_ihef\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/il_340x270.513823462_ihef.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3438\" alt=\"il_340x270.513823462_ihef\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/il_340x270.513823462_ihef-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/il_340x270.513823462_ihef-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/il_340x270.513823462_ihef-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Pass the Blackout<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You should know, sweet sailor,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that every time the boatswain blows<br \/>sleepy taps into the misery pipe,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a corsage of sea salt<br \/>blossoms on the wrists of standby wives<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sequestered in cap sleeves<br \/>and hot copper headaches.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You should know the storm flag<br \/>is saluted when thunderclap<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0erases the strategy in our smiles<br \/>and braids our breath into aiguillettes.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fieldstrip the stars like<br \/>the cherry of a cigarette,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0watch them fall windward as<br \/>gravity warps our chest medals into lifeboats,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our dress whites into<br \/>hospital gowns.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Goodnight nurse, ghost of Joan,<br \/>Before your dreams run aground<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0know sweet sailor:<br \/>There\u2019s a red phone at the<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bottom of every ocean<br \/>there\u2019s a seabag full of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Brandon Courtney<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-3437","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\/3437","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=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}