{"id":2234,"date":"2014-05-06T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2017-07-11T03:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:31:12","slug":"skeleton-by-katie-booms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/skeleton-by-katie-booms\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeleton by Katie Booms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/KatieBooms_GR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2235 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/KatieBooms_GR.jpg\" alt=\"KatieBooms_GR\" width=\"429\" height=\"322\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/KatieBooms_GR.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/KatieBooms_GR-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 429px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 429\/322;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Skeleton<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Katie Booms<\/p>\n<p>For years, it was a dinosaur<br \/>\nsitting in the big open room of our barn,<br \/>\nall sprawling shoulder and radials,<br \/>\nbold and gaunt, bare caverns and organs,<br \/>\nand we ignored it, except each winter<br \/>\nwhen a wagon had to be backed in to shelter,<br \/>\nor spring, when we remembered standing there,<br \/>\nshooting basketballs at the net nailed to the hay loft.<br \/>\nThen, it was impractically large, slow-moving,<br \/>\nbound for extinction.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Katie Booms is a writer, visual artist, and advocate for community-building. She welcomes collaboration of all kinds and can be found on Twitter as @ka_booms. She earned her MFA at the University of Wyoming, served for a year with AmeriCorps at the Freret Neighborhood Center in New Orleans and currently teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Booms is a writer, visual artist, and advocate for community-building. She welcomes collaboration of all kinds and can be found on Twitter as @ka_booms. She earned her MFA at the University of Wyoming<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}