{"id":273,"date":"2025-10-01T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:21:23","slug":"my-fretful-neighbors-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/my-fretful-neighbors-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fretful Neighbors (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>My Fretful Neighbors<\/strong><br><br>Everything startles them<br>in the cemetery over there: motorbike<br>roar, finch chirp, hum of moth; a branch falls,<br>a candy wrapper blows through the grass,<br>rain drops patter, stop, start again;<br>today ends earlier than yesterday<br>and the moon is older, dimmer, partly gone.<br>If life would just hold still, they could relax,<br>let themselves go, leave off being<br>things that happen. My old friend could quit<br>visiting me. His smile stops again<br>every time it almost starts, dimmer<br>than last time, partly gone\u2014the part<br>I carried on my face. My ear could put<br>his voice down. I could stop being<br>things that happened with him.<br>The birds might be different, the moths.<br>Everything might startle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Thomas Gorn<\/em><br><em>October 1st, 2025<\/em><br>(<em>Halloween Day 1<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything startles them \/ in the cemetery over there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[36,34,35,10],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-ghosts","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}