{"id":115,"date":"2007-01-08T05:50:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/the-mailbox\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T06:02:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T14:02:21","slug":"the-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/the-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published in LLL of Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> Ten-Gallon Tidings, <em>Fall 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I stared out<br \/>\nPast the drapes<br \/>\nPast the tears<br \/>\nPast a layette I guess<br \/>\nI won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be needing<\/p>\n<p>To the mailbox.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Standing in the rain<br \/>\nThe mail van had just come<br \/>\nProbably another sympathy card.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ready<br \/>\nFor the walk out<br \/>\nTo pull down the door<br \/>\nSlit the envelope<br \/>\nOpen my heart<br \/>\nLet the grief flow again.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in another hour<br \/>\nOr two<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go out<br \/>\nOr maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave<br \/>\nAnother \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was so sorry to hear . . .\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nFor tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in LLL of Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ten-Gallon Tidings, Fall 1993 I stared out Past the drapes Past the tears Past a layette I guess I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be needing To the mailbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}