{"id":1275,"date":"2012-06-01T05:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T05:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:25:20","slug":"its-her-fault-by-john-steffen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/its-her-fault-by-john-steffen\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s her fault by John Steffen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JFS-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1276 lazyload\" title=\"JFS-4\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JFS-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"168\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/168;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s her fault<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by John Steffen<\/p>\n<p>Because of the moon<br \/>\nWife and I got in a fight when<br \/>\nI dragged her outside to see the light tonight<br \/>\nBecause of the moon<\/p>\n<p>The light of night is not her interest, she said<br \/>\nAnd I am just a fool, by her insistence and spite<\/p>\n<p>Because of the moon<br \/>\nThe neighbor&#8217;s dog barked at me<br \/>\nI meander like a sheep lost in my own back yard<br \/>\nBecause of the moon<\/p>\n<p>Because of the moon<br \/>\nA brilliant light, a bitter wife<br \/>\nA barking dog, a sparkling night<br \/>\nWords written born out of light<br \/>\nBecause of the moon<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s her fault<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nJohn Steffen is a retired fundraiser and of late a student of fiction and poetry at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Although unpublished save an article or two some decades ago, and a recent story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/\">http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/<\/a>\u00a0he is now in the process of recreating himself for the 60th time with the dream of publishing a book of memoirs. Website Links:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ofdogsandotherobservations.blogspot.com\/\/\">http:\/\/ofdogsandotherobservations.blogspot.com\/\\<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s her fault by John Steffen Because of the moon Wife and I got in a fight when I dragged her outside to see the light tonight Because of the moon The light of night is not her interest, she said And I am just a fool, by her insistence and spite Because of the&#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":[413,314,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-poems","category-love-poem","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}