{"id":16882,"date":"2017-09-12T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16882"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:18:06","slug":"it-would-have-been-less-romantic-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/12\/it-would-have-been-less-romantic-that-way\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Have Been Less Romantic That Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, gentle reader, I met my beautiful wife on the Internet when I posted a poem on a Usenet newsgroup (ask yer grandpa), and she liked it (fuller story <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/the-iron-maiden-poster-that-got-me-a-wife\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This is the poem I posted (and which should appear in a forthcoming volume of poetry when I get around to finishing it up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exploring, we discovered Bee Tree Park.<br \/>\nTree branches laced like lazy fingers behind our head,<br \/>\nabove the trail, above the naked rock,<br \/>\nwhere neon graffiti was worn to earthen tones.<br \/>\nThe slow Mississippi whispered by.<br \/>\nFingers woven like dreams and the night<br \/>\n    before falling asleep.<br \/>\nHer warm palm pulsing, we paused<br \/>\nto watch the barges wander down<br \/>\nand sip the summer breeze.<br \/>\nHer voice murmured cooly in my ears,<br \/>\nshe spilled her hair over my shoulder,<br \/>\nmaple syrup dripping down my chest,<br \/>\n\u201cThis would be a great place to make love.\u201d<br \/>\nI smiled, ruffling kisses through her hairs,<br \/>\na butterfly on a field of clover,<br \/>\nand rustled in her ear, \u201cWe are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole scene and setup would definitely be less romantic with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/hikers-discover-human-foot-inside-man-s-shoe-at-bee\/article_a08765ea-e311-5162-8699-f76fdc18544f.html\" target=\"_new\">severed human foot in it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, gentle reader, I met my beautiful wife on the Internet when I posted a poem on a Usenet newsgroup (ask yer grandpa), and she liked it (fuller story here). This is the poem I posted (and which should appear in a forthcoming volume of poetry when I get around to finishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16883,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions\/16883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}