{"id":825,"date":"2013-04-27T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2013-04-27T17:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T17:53:02","slug":"the-girl-behind-the-polka-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/the-girl-behind-the-polka-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"The girl behind the polka dot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The girl behind the polka dot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the third of June<br \/>\nthe rains beat down none too soon<br \/>\nfor the heat, the heat was strong enough<br \/>\nto cook the brain<\/p>\n<p>The rains lashed down<br \/>\nbut I was safe behind the screen<br \/>\nthe wipers screeched their protest<br \/>\nidle since last year<br \/>\nnow venting their despair<\/p>\n<p>The red carpet was out<br \/>\nthe man ahead lost his footing<br \/>\nthe cameras flashed<br \/>\nhis shirt was dripping<br \/>\nthe TV crews &#8211;\u00a0shooting<\/p>\n<p>The hall was crowded<br \/>\nthe lighting occluded<br \/>\nthe fashion impressive<br \/>\nthe models attractive<\/p>\n<p>Her face haunts my dreams<br \/>\nher vision my days<br \/>\nthe rain washed away all:<br \/>\nsins and signs<br \/>\nthings and grime<\/p>\n<p>Love, affection, infatuation<br \/>\ngasps,whispers, exclamation<br \/>\nheaven, earth, and in between<br \/>\ndeath, taxes, all that lives within<br \/>\nlighting, thunder, lightening<\/p>\n<p>silence &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was the girl behind the polka dot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girl behind the polka dot It was the third of June the rains beat down none too soon for the heat, the heat was strong enough to cook the brain The rains lashed down but I was safe behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/27\/the-girl-behind-the-polka-dot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[265,359,426,470,594,610,783,818,10,1002],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-fashion","tag-girl","tag-heaven","tag-light","tag-love","tag-polka","tag-rain","tag-sin","tag-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}