{"id":158764,"date":"2015-04-17T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T06:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/17\/middle-american-gothic\/"},"modified":"2015-04-17T06:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T06:48:01","slug":"middle-american-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/17\/middle-american-gothic\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle American Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teapotsubtext.tumblr.com\/post\/116477557973\/middle-american-gothic\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">teapotsubtext<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019ve heard of mountains, but everything around you is flat. You don\u2019t believe.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s summer. You must park in the shade or you will die. You drive for hours, searching for a space. You forget what day it is.<\/li>\n<li>Thin clouds cover the entire sky. You can make out the shape of the sun. You are staring at it. Your eyes aren\u2019t burning. Everything looks the same.<\/li>\n<li>Your brother swears he met a democrat once. You\u2019re not sure if you believe him. You don\u2019t have a brother.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re in a place where the buildings are close together. Everyone pretends it\u2019s downtown, everyone pretends this is a city. You don\u2019t say anything. You know the truth.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re in a mall. You decide to leave. You walk through the exit. You\u2019re in a mall. You decide to leave. You walk through the exit. You\u2019re in a mall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>teapotsubtext: You\u2019ve heard of mountains, but everything around you is flat. You don\u2019t believe.\u00a0 It\u2019s summer. You must park in the shade or you will die. You drive for hours, searching for a space. You forget what day it is. Thin clouds cover the entire sky. You can make out the shape of the sun. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/17\/middle-american-gothic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Middle American Gothic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17828,5660,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}