{"id":30,"date":"2008-12-08T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-12-08T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:51:28","slug":"wood-the-gilded-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Wood: The Gilded Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> THE GILDED AGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Joseph Wood<\/p>\n<p>Over &#038; over across the El\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 car, cunt. Beneath one juvenile scrawl, a phantom-limbed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure\u00e2\u20ac\u201dvet (?) pounds Kaddish on a Yamaha &#038; nods to a rusted coffee can quarter-full w\/ pennies. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dressed down all day: Shattered Auntie Sophie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one Waterford vase; Spent Uncle Sylvester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1882 moss-embossed nickel. He blathered if only you held it to your ear, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d hear the ruffling prairie grass\u00e2\u20ac\u201dWhat about the rackety stagecoach? What about a good old fashion shoot-out? Every human, it seems, believes his era a Cyclops, an occasion for waterworks, a trail of buckshot. Replace hoop skirt w\/ toga, toga w\/ fishnets, fishnets w\/ potato sacks, it all ends w\/ fire. Across the planet, an orphanage basement. The babies, to hide from snipers, are dirt-floor crammed. A calendar has molded. Offal builds, deteriorates. I am just one man, one flamboyant tissue. Here is the wind. Toss me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GILDED AGE by Joseph Wood Over &#038; over across the El\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 car, cunt. Beneath one juvenile scrawl, a phantom-limbed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure\u00e2\u20ac\u201dvet (?) pounds Kaddish on a Yamaha &#038; nods to a rusted coffee can quarter-full w\/ pennies. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dressed down all day: Shattered Auntie Sophie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one Waterford vase; Spent Uncle Sylvester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1882 moss-embossed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}