{"id":391,"date":"2008-10-13T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/10\/sloppy-normal\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T17:31:00","slug":"sloppy-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/sloppy-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloppy Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soda cans and dirty plates lie lazily in the sink,<br \/>enjoying their own sticky odors like filthy children<br \/>joyful three days without a bath<br \/>A breakfast of English muffin, not the stale sameness of Big Bird yellow eggs<br \/>because I felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>Your drawers are left open<br \/>where you crammed your clothes in, so that your pants hang outside<br \/>I can see your long legs filling them.<\/p>\n<p>And the TV cabinet is closed<br \/>The clashing colors of your videos are now hidden<br \/>Peace to my eyes, sadness to yours.<br \/>My handbag sits with open mouth and zipper teeth gaping<br \/>hungry and stupid, waiting to be fed<br \/>Like us, bright shiny family of four.<\/p>\n<p>There is freedom with you gone.<br \/>My house, my self, can relax<br \/>But the languid ease of your absence<br \/>The sloppiness of Normal<br \/>Is the hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever had to bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soda cans and dirty plates lie lazily in the sink,enjoying their own sticky odors like filthy childrenjoyful three days without a bathA breakfast of English muffin, not the stale sameness of Big Bird yellow eggsbecause I felt like it. Your drawers are left openwhere you crammed your clothes in, so that your pants hang outsideI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-6j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}