{"id":170,"date":"2008-07-21T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/wp\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-06-11T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T00:43:00","slug":"in-memoriam-betty-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/in-memoriam-betty-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam Betty Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother died over the weekend from complications following coronary bypass surgery.<br \/>\nIn place of my own discomfited expressions, some borrowed words, too often used of late:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><strong>Talking to Grief<\/strong>        <\/p>\n<p>Ah, Grief, I should not treat you<br \/>\nlike a homeless dog<br \/>\nwho comes to the back door<br \/>\nfor a crust, for a meatless bone.<br \/>\nI should trust you.<\/p>\n<p>I should coax you<br \/>\ninto the house and give you<br \/>\nyour own corner,<br \/>\na worn mat to lie on,<br \/>\nyour own water dish.<\/p>\n<p>You think I don&#8217;t know you&#8217;ve been living<br \/>\nunder my porch.<br \/>\nYou long for your real place to be readied<br \/>\nbefore winter comes. You need<br \/>\nyour name,<br \/>\nyour collar and tag. You need<br \/>\nthe right to warn off intruders,<br \/>\nto consider<br \/>\nmy house your own<br \/>\nand me your person<br \/>\nand yourself<br \/>\nmy own dog. <\/p>\n<p><em>Denise Levertov<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother died over the weekend from complications following coronary bypass surgery. In place of my own discomfited expressions, some borrowed words, too often used of late: Talking to Grief Ah, Grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes to the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71YpQ-2K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}