{"id":3285,"date":"2024-04-08T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:51:57","slug":"what-me-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3285","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Me, Cruel?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April stares back at us and asks:\u00a0<br \/>What me, cruel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because mournful windows<br \/>rattle in my winds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and pots tip over, green\u00a0<br \/>with rust or lichen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because hairs on your bare legs<br \/>shiver like crocus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She finds us in her glassy eye<br \/>and springs:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are morose, but life revives\u00a0<br \/>on my terms (her smile impervious)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April stares back at us and asks:\u00a0What me, cruel? Because mournful windowsrattle in my winds and pots tip over, green\u00a0with rust or lichen? Because hairs on your bare legsshiver like crocus? She finds us in her glassy eyeand springs:\u00a0 You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,117,1251,138,563,1419,1417,200,1418],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-april-is-the-cruelest-month","tag-baudelaire","tag-nature-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-rebirth","tag-reincarnation","tag-spring-poems","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-the-muse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-QZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}