{"id":15536,"date":"2024-12-13T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15536"},"modified":"2024-12-14T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:05:48","slug":"poem-by-peter-mladinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15536","title":{"rendered":"poem by Peter Mladinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are You Religious? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He drove to a secluded lake before dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Death by carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n<p>Only nineteen.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I remember one day he, his brother, their parents,<\/p>\n<p>and I rode past University Baptist.<\/p>\n<p>He said the people there are brainwashed.<\/p>\n<p>His mother found religion after he died.<\/p>\n<p>She and his father divorced.<\/p>\n<p>His father, a writer, moved north,<\/p>\n<p>found a university job, and remarried.<\/p>\n<p>While they were together but apart,<\/p>\n<p>I began to notice her<\/p>\n<p>long blonde hair, hourglass curves.<\/p>\n<p>One day I phoned her<\/p>\n<p>and told her not to come to my place.<\/p>\n<p>I screwed that up.<\/p>\n<p>I got my MFA and left that college town.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, she stopped texting<\/p>\n<p>when she found out I lived with a woman.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t proper I was texting her.<\/p>\n<p>Single, retired,<\/p>\n<p>she has grandchildren, a lake house<\/p>\n<p>she goes to when not in town,<\/p>\n<p>cheering her college basketball team,<\/p>\n<p>which she never did before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You Religious? &nbsp; He drove to a secluded lake before dawn. Death by carbon monoxide. Only nineteen.<\/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":""},"categories":[1730,77],"tags":[1728,1123,1587],"class_list":["post-15536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-83","category-english","tag-egophobia-83","tag-english","tag-peter-mladinic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-42A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15537,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536\/revisions\/15537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}