{"id":1506,"date":"2012-12-14T02:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2017-07-11T17:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:44:55","slug":"2-milk-by-amanda-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/2-milk-by-amanda-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"2% Milk by Amanda Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/2012\/golden-apple-by-richard-mendelson\/apple\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1151\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1151 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/apple.jpg\" alt=\"apple\" width=\"363\" height=\"619\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 363px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 363\/619;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">2% Milk<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Amanda Wall<\/p>\n<p>The milk you gave me was skim. I wanted two percent, I would&#8217;ve even taken one.<\/p>\n<p>But skim milk makes the grass bend down and it never lets the leaves fall.<br \/>\nIt puts me in a congested alley.<\/p>\n<p>But two percent you see,<br \/>\nit puts me in a small cabin on an orchard where apples are so bountiful, I can stand on my toes and reach them through our kitchen window.<\/p>\n<p>Two percent is sweet wine and kisses in the garden, public for all to see, but private because it&#8217;s just you and me.<\/p>\n<p>Two percent is you and me together, nothing separating us, nothing stopping me from stretching me to you, nothing stopping the connection.<\/p>\n<p>Two percent is leaves falling on us at our wedding, two percent is our bed of leaves that night. Two percent is my gift to you.<\/p>\n<p>But all I see right now is skim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milk you gave me was skim. I wanted two percent, I would&#8217;ve even taken one.<\/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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}