{"id":25,"date":"2010-07-17T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T16:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circledword.net\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-07-17T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T16:46:40","slug":"asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/circledword.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-47\" title=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/circledword.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/white-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/circledword.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/white-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/circledword.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/white.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Persimmon orange washes blankly across my waking field of vision to where it weakens and dissolves in turquoise. \u00a0A white tower on a nearby rooftop blinks out time in tomato red, the tiny light on top sticking up for development amidst all this passive sky, tomato, tomato . . . .<\/p>\n<p>Below, long rows of portable toilets like green teeth stand in well-ordered service within the snaking crowd control barrier. \u00a0&#8220;Celebrate St. Louis&#8221; brings &#8220;quality entertainment&#8221; through &#8220;excellent corporate sponsorship.&#8221; \u00a0Bud and hot dogs leave their scent on the paper and plastic that dances listlessly about the empty streets in remembrance of this.<\/p>\n<p>Bums, gloved and hooded in the stifling damp heat of the park, seem always to be sleeping. \u00a0Did they wake to the amplified beat? Did it invade their dreams with the necessity, the predestination of corporate recreation?<\/p>\n<p>Now the sun shines brightly on a world of still-drowsy people, bums and marketers alike. \u00a0Only the birds have been industrious here in the waking hours. \u00a0They cross the sky with energy and purpose, perhaps joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persimmon orange washes blankly across my waking field of vision to where it weakens and dissolves in turquoise. \u00a0A white tower on a nearby rooftop blinks out time in tomato red, the tiny light on top sticking up for development &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/circledword.net\/?p=25\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circledword.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}