{"id":1053,"date":"2011-09-19T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2014-06-24T06:56:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:56:42","slug":"vacation-by-william-aarnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/vacation-by-william-aarnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation by William Aarnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bill1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1055 lazyload\" title=\"bill1\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bill1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bill1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bill1.jpg 565w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/223;\" \/><\/a>Vacation<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by William Aarnes<\/p>\n<p>Mouse droppings<br \/>\nalong the kitchen counter<\/p>\n<p>the morning you&#8217;re leaving<br \/>\nyour house vacant<\/p>\n<p>for a month.<br \/>\nA flight to catch<\/p>\n<p>so nothing to do<br \/>\nbut wipe the counter<\/p>\n<p>and forget the chore<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll find waiting<\/p>\n<p>the night your return.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nWilliam Aarnes teaches English at Furman. He has two collections of poems: Learning to Dance (1991) and Predicaments (2001) both published by Ninety-Six Press. His work has appeared recently in the Red River Review, Curbside Quotidian, Prime Number, and Ascent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacation by William Aarnes Mouse droppings along the kitchen counter the morning you&#8217;re leaving your house vacant for a month. A flight to catch so nothing to do but wipe the counter and forget the chore you&#8217;ll find waiting the night your return. ### William Aarnes teaches English at Furman. He has two collections of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}