{"id":1423,"date":"2011-08-28T14:14:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:21:22","slug":"in-a-manger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/in-a-manger\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Manger"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nIt lay self-entangled, curled as ramshorns,\r\n--And pushed the belly into being mother--\r\nWho, to be herself, had first to the Other,--\r\nWhich looked as if it didn't want being born.\r\n\r\nIts sideways was more, and worse, than backwards.\r\nIt had to be sawn out to be itself a lamb,\r\nStartle the clover and bleat \"I am.\"\r\nThe bowie knife came handy without a word.\r\n\r\nA tense scarlet torn sort of giving-in,\r\nA clattering shape cauled on scattered straw,\r\nUngainly upright legs besides the ewe's,\r\nShook me wet and bellowed out of pain.\r\n\r\nWhat had come too soon would need a mother's milk.\r\nI pulled all night through wetness with raw silk.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It lay self-entangled, curled as ramshorns, &#8211;And pushed the belly into being mother&#8211; Who, to be herself, had first to the Other,&#8211; Which looked as if it didn&#8217;t want being born. Its sideways was more, and worse, than backwards. It had to be sawn out to be itself a lamb, Startle the clover and bleat <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/in-a-manger\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102],"tags":[508,507],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonnets","tag-bowie-knife","tag-raw-silk","category-1102-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}