{"id":942,"date":"2015-07-31T19:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/?p=942"},"modified":"2015-08-22T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T12:54:29","slug":"bluau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2015\/07\/bluau\/","title":{"rendered":"B&#8217;luau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was off the hook when I dialed it in,<br \/>\nwhen this blue moon face<br \/>\ntold me to head &#8216;er.<br \/>\nAn action film at the Ridge where<br \/>\nI hit the curb on a righthand turn,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not in my body today, babe.<br \/>\nToo many hours unsticking pages<br \/>\nin the old man&#8217;s &#8216;zines.&nbsp;<br \/>\nYeah, yeah, I blame it on too much protein.<br \/>\nSo, I go for late night carbs at<br \/>\nAnna Miller&#8217;s where I pull<br \/>\non my beard, straining from bacon to, &#8220;What if..<br \/>\nI&#8217;d&#8217;ve given in to cigarettes?&#8221;<br \/>\nBut they don&#8217;t look right on me,<br \/>\nlike tatoos. Like tight pants.<br \/>\nLess James Dean, more Jimmy.<br \/>\nDamn them pigs!<br \/>\nWith guns! With intentions!<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a scientist somewhere that says&nbsp;<br \/>\nthe missing link may be swine.<br \/>\nThinking of you, babe, with you&#8217;re too much sun.<br \/>\nA crispy, burned belly and boobs.<br \/>\nA lot of bright, brown faces here pull me from my theories,<br \/>\nsimultaneously making my mouth water, my stomach bleed.<br \/>\nSmoking bodies. Sizzling bodies.<br \/>\nRotisserie bodies.<br \/>\nNo cure for me, babe.<br \/>\nMy head between two shanks,<br \/>\naddicted to the briny aroma.<br \/>\nLooking for the pink, throwing to the coals<br \/>\npulling for the pork, covering with dirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was off the hook when I dialed it in, when this blue moon face told me to head &#8216;er. An action film at the Ridge where I hit the curb on a righthand turn, I&#8217;m not in my body today, babe. Too many hours unsticking pages in the old man&#8217;s &#8216;zines.&nbsp; Yeah, yeah, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2015\/07\/bluau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B&#8217;luau<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}