{"id":12636,"date":"2017-03-22T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:52:07","slug":"green-rock-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/green-rock-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Rock by Barbara F. Lefcowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the harbor, shining<br \/>\nemerald slab, red and plum whorls<br \/>\ninterlaced, the grooved frequencies<br \/>\nof ancient trade routes.<br \/>\nI would come back with notepad and winejug,<br \/>\nmy claim staked with a braid of kelp,<br \/>\nmeasured steps.<\/p>\n<p>How can I know now<br \/>\nif it\u2019s slipped back to sea<br \/>\nor perhaps never been there at all,<br \/>\nlike the young balladeer.<br \/>\nher voice whorled with sadness<br \/>\nold as fishwives and spicewives,<br \/>\nI once heard, thought I heard,<br \/>\nhalfway down Shop Street in Galway.<\/p>\n<p>-Ragged Island, Maine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the harbor, shining emerald slab, red and plum whorls interlaced, the grooved frequencies of ancient trade routes. I would come back with notepad and winejug, my claim staked with a braid of kelp, measured steps. How can I know now if it\u2019s slipped back to sea or perhaps never been there at all, like [&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-12636","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\/12636","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=12636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12637,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions\/12637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}