{"id":1394,"date":"2010-10-14T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2010-10-14T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:59:57","slug":"for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1394","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am doing my dishes<br \/>\nfor the first time<br \/>\ntaking care not to nick, chip, scratch<br \/>\nthe shiny new colors<br \/>\nas they turn in my yellow-gloved hands<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The sink is smaller now<br \/>\nthe light harsher, more grim<br \/>\nbut my hands are just the same<br \/>\nholding the plates and bowls with care<br \/>\nthat you seemed to disregard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is stormy outside<br \/>\nlike that day in the Badlands<br \/>\nthe picture you chose to define it all<br \/>\nyour new paradigm, status, independence<br \/>\na day with me, and we were happy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can see your reflection<br \/>\nin the plate&#8217;s concentric circles<br \/>\nglinting light off the o&#8217;erhead fluorescent<br \/>\nlike the cloudbent sun on your glasses<br \/>\nthat tumultuous day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I hope you&#8217;re happy now<br \/>\nbut you&#8217;re not, and I&#8217;m not sure I mean it<br \/>\nit&#8217;s something people say<br \/>\nwhen they mean it and don&#8217;t<br \/>\nand I understand, oh I understand<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I love you and hate you<br \/>\nlike these dishes<br \/>\nyou helped me buy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your parting gift<br \/>\nas you turned your head, walked away<br \/>\ntoward a future you long pictured<br \/>\nbut never bothered<br \/>\nto truly see<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/FiestaDishes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A sequel to <em><a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/1314\">For the Last Time<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing my dishes for the first time taking care not to nick, chip, scratch the shiny new colors as they turn in my yellow-gloved hands The sink is smaller now the light harsher, more grim but my hands are just the same holding the plates and bowls with care that you seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,20,33],"tags":[5,67,62,73],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-primary-sources","category-the-long-tunnel","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-primary-sources","tag-the-long-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}