{"id":12631,"date":"2017-03-22T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:28:39","slug":"jukebox-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/jukebox-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jukebox by Barbara F. Lefcowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The special tonight is homebaked Loneliness Pie.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve run out of everything else the waitress says. Sorry.<br \/>\nThe jukebox is playing Mendelssohn\u2019s Hebrides Overture.<br \/>\nB-minor music for a dark and solitary place.<br \/>\nSomebody else must be here beside the waitress and me.<br \/>\nIn late afternoon light shadows spread like rumors<br \/>\nBehind a person\u2019s back, cutting off the day\u2019s conversation.<br \/>\nSartre said hell is other people so solitude must be heaven<br \/>\nWithout angels. I ask the waitress if she believes<br \/>\nLoneliness is the ultimate freedom. Yes. They can\u2019t take it away<br \/>\nEven if you live in a box. Janis Joplin sings how freedom\u2019s just<br \/>\nanother word for nothing&#8230;Does anyone think about<br \/>\nthe loneliness of fitting room mirrors at 3 a.m.?<br \/>\nThey reflect each other\u2019s icy glare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special tonight is homebaked Loneliness Pie. We\u2019ve run out of everything else the waitress says. Sorry. The jukebox is playing Mendelssohn\u2019s Hebrides Overture. B-minor music for a dark and solitary place. Somebody else must be here beside the waitress and me. In late afternoon light shadows spread like rumors Behind a person\u2019s back, cutting [&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-12631","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\/12631","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=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12632,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}