{"id":12629,"date":"2017-03-22T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12629"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:27:10","slug":"singing-partners-by-barbara-lefcowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/singing-partners-by-barbara-lefcowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing Partners by Barbara Lefcowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its gusts accompanied by a rush of dry leaves,<br \/>\nthe banging of shutters and overturned trash cans,<br \/>\nthe wind never sings alone.<\/p>\n<p>Piano notes from an open window<br \/>\ncounterpoint a chorus of insects,<br \/>\na fire truck\u2019s siren screams down the street<br \/>\nwith the surf-like dirge of traffic.<br \/>\nWhen it\u2019s time for night music, the crackling of plaster,<br \/>\njoins the hum of wires, creak of an unwalked floorboard.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I sing to myself so I no longer hear<br \/>\nthe wordless whispering, that loud hiss<br \/>\nsuddenly rising inside my ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its gusts accompanied by a rush of dry leaves, the banging of shutters and overturned trash cans, the wind never sings alone. Piano notes from an open window counterpoint a chorus of insects, a fire truck\u2019s siren screams down the street with the surf-like dirge of traffic. When it\u2019s time for night music, the crackling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-f-lefcowitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12630,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}