{"id":252,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/?p=10"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:33","slug":"bennett-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/2003\/01\/01\/bennett-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine by John Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">IMAGINE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A stab at stability. Pretense down the mail shoot. Special delivery<br \/>\non a cold rainy day. Russians teaching English at Oxford. The same old<br \/>\njanitors, mopping up after class.<\/p>\n<p>Anthrax, a fast train to nowhere. A one-in-a-million chance and he<br \/>\nblows it. The sharpshooter in the tower takes aim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My fellow Vespucians,&#8221; he says. &#8220;My dandies and damsels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And off goes the round.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nUp goes the curtain. Down comes the flag. Cubic inches of fire and<br \/>\nbrimstone. Mad love in the pantry. Crystal droplets in the cuff of his<br \/>\ntrousers. He combs back his hair and walks into the day.<\/p>\n<p>It only hurts for a little while, and then they open the door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John Bennett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMAGINE A stab at stability. Pretense down the mail shoot. Special delivery on a cold rainy day. Russians teaching English at Oxford. The same old janitors, mopping up after class. Anthrax, a fast train to nowhere. A one-in-a-million chance and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/2003\/01\/01\/bennett-2-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,19],"tags":[123,78,101],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","category-john-bennett-2003","category-john-bennett","tag-123","tag-bennett","tag-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}