{"id":2807,"date":"2015-06-04T00:58:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:58:17","slug":"the-piano-and-his-boy-by-april-votolato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-piano-and-his-boy-by-april-votolato\/","title":{"rendered":"The Piano And His Boy by April Votolato"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1319.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2808 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1319.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_1319\" width=\"344\" height=\"348\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1319.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1319-296x300.jpeg 296w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 344px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 344\/348;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Piano And His Boy<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by April Votolato<\/p>\n<p>like sleep comes<br \/>\nlike lungs fill with air<br \/>\nso too, we let go<\/p>\n<p>my flowered lips<br \/>\nturned down<br \/>\nyour perfect laugh<br \/>\ncame undone<\/p>\n<p>and in silence we sat<br \/>\nas two, mourning<br \/>\nwhat seconds before,<br \/>\nwas one.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>April Votolato is a writer and visual artist from Seattle Washington where she lives with her two children, and husband, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato. For the past decade April has been managing all art direction for Rocky\u2019s business and has helped co-write several songs along side him.<br \/>\nOne of her most recent poems &#8220;A Ghost In The Sun&#8221; was adapted into the title track song on his latest release Hospital Handshakes. April is in the process of finishing her first collection of poems due to be completed by early fall 2015.<br \/>\nThere is nothing April loves more then good conversations over hot tea (preferably black).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Votolato is a writer and visual artist from Seattle Washington where she lives with her two children, and husband, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2808,"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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}