{"id":25,"date":"2014-11-29T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-11-29T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:32:14","slug":"freeze-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Freeze frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rescued this poem\u00a0from <em>My Life in Advertising<\/em> by Claude C Hopkins (p 205) and\u00a0<em>The sea<\/em> by John Banville (p 143).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Freeze frame<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Summer afternoon pocketing thunderous idleness in the dark.<br \/>\nErotic encounter<br \/>\ncovert kiss<br \/>\nblack-and-white screen<br \/>\nflickering<br \/>\nfading<br \/>\nghosts of desire sitting in pitch-dark intensity<br \/>\nfor hours,<br \/>\nmanic fumbling,<br \/>\ntwitched satisfaction<br \/>\ndeprive primal intensity;<br \/>\nconfinement<br \/>\nreputation,<br \/>\nballs for breakfast<br \/>\nconscious phantoms lurch<br \/>\nfrom joy to grey<br \/>\napprove to disreputable<br \/>\nfilled fingers to wanton waste,<br \/>\npicture-house main feature to forgotten poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rescued this poem\u00a0from My Life in Advertising by Claude C Hopkins (p 205) and\u00a0The sea by John Banville (p 143). Freeze frame Summer afternoon pocketing thunderous idleness in the dark. Erotic encounter covert kiss black-and-white screen flickering fading ghosts of desire sitting in pitch-dark intensity for hours, manic fumbling, twitched satisfaction deprive primal intensity; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeze frame<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10,16],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rescued-poem","tag-claude-c-hopkins","tag-john-banville","tag-rescued-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuedpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}