{"id":21,"date":"2020-04-22T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/?p=21"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T19:36:33","slug":"at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/poems\/at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">A Poem by Wyoming McGinn<\/h2>\n<p>She counts the days<br \/>\ntil her reunion<br \/>\nwith new and old friends.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The wolf<br \/>\non her mother\u2019s desk,<br \/>\nlooking north,<br \/>\nmissing parts of his coat of fur but really<br \/>\nmissing freedom<br \/>\nHis puzzle has taken 5 days already.<br \/>\nIn front of him<br \/>\nevery time she looks through<br \/>\nshe sees through her window;<br \/>\nup that road it is<br \/>\nonly a short run, she explains.<br \/>\nBut,<br \/>\nIt is 4 miles around the lake:<br \/>\n1 to the end<br \/>\nof the road,<br \/>\n2 past the entrance<br \/>\nto the empty beach,<br \/>\nshe passes mile 3 by his house<br \/>\nand finishes back on the dirt road.<br \/>\nAnother run,<br \/>\n4 miles,<br \/>\nthe farthest she can go,<br \/>\nshe\u2019s out of breath.<br \/>\nBreath goes in out in out in out.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s going in circles.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<br \/>\nKnocking on the door,<br \/>\nscratching from kittens,<br \/>\nclouds blocking sunset views,<br \/>\ndrives with no end,<br \/>\nmusic which tells her<br \/>\nto dance.<br \/>\nAt least, unlike the broken wolf,<br \/>\nthe forest can have her<br \/>\nuntil her drives can take her<br \/>\nto her houses and homes,<br \/>\nand the people she misses.<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><sup>1 Lines 1-3 Reference \u201cDuck Eggs\u201d by Ruth Ozeki<\/sup><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poem by Wyoming McGinn&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/poems\/at-home\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,14],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poem","tag-wyoming-mcginn","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/covid-narratives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}