{"id":57,"date":"2025-03-16T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:13:50","slug":"hometown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/poetry\/hometown\/","title":{"rendered":"hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kimmy Joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">three people recognize me in the grocery store<br>and they all want to know about the purple hair.<br>one of them calls me Angel. all of them know<br>someone who\u2019s dying. seagulls at a distance, <br>cornfields drying, mid-october. i buy chocolate<br>and drink whiskey in the parking lot. everything<br>else is closed on sundays. swear i\u2019m not crying<br>over anything but you and it feels like another <br>weekend two years ago when i couldn\u2019t find<br>anywhere to eat and i drank whiskey in public.<br>crying by the grand river for hours. i needed every-<br>one to know i was in pain. and it still hurts. it never<br>stopped and maybe never will. i tell you to stop<br>telling me you love me, at least for a little while,<br>and you don\u2019t. or maybe you can\u2019t. i wrote a song<br>in my dreams last night, perfect for once, and i<br>forgot it as soon as i woke up. tell me you\u2019re sorry,<br>but tell me in a song. nowadays i don\u2019t believe<br>anything unless it\u2019s being sung to me. angel.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimmy Joy three people recognize me in the grocery storeand they all want to know about the purple hair.one of them calls me Angel. all of them knowsomeone who\u2019s dying. seagulls at a distance, cornfields drying, mid-october. i buy chocolateand drink whiskey in the parking lot. everythingelse is closed on sundays. swear i\u2019m not cryingover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":92,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmsc.ink\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}