{"id":540,"date":"2022-02-24T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/?page_id=540"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:01:34","slug":"jean-blakeman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/jean-blakeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Blakeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How to Get to My House<\/h3>\n<p>To get there at night in an open boat, I crossed<br \/>\na lake large as a sea.<br \/>\nAnd told you, whoever you were,<br \/>\nthat the houses on the shore<br \/>\nwere flooded. I pointed them out.<br \/>\nWhy had I moved to this ruined lakeside?<br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 3em;\">that was not in a city, not a town? Something<\/span><br \/>\nI needed?  To fix?<br \/>\nTo begin again?<br \/>\nNo. No, I could simply wake up, as I did,<br \/>\nthinking <em>Where am I?<br \/>\nWhere am I? Where am I?<\/em><br \/>\nand feel the bed and the splendid sheets, the cold room<br \/>\nin a real house on a mountain.<br \/>\nWoolen socks on my feet.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a class=\"previous-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/dream-home\/\">Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"next-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/visual-art\/camille-butterfield-1\/\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Get to My House To get there at night in an open boat, I crossed a lake large as a sea. And told you, whoever you were, that the houses on the shore were flooded. I pointed them out. Why had I moved to this ruined lakeside? that was not in a city, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/jean-blakeman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jean Blakeman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions\/1280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}