{"id":3109,"date":"2011-05-06T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:41:00","slug":"for-bill-my-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"For Bill, My Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From long ago, but I thought it was time to put it in here.  Bill died in January 2005.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Bill, my cat<\/p>\n<p>Each time I sweep I realize<br \/>\nmore and more of you<br \/>\nis leaving<br \/>\nhair by hair<br \/>\nmote by mote.<br \/>\nthe you that was here<br \/>\nlives here less and less<\/p>\n<p>More and more of what<br \/>\nis swept up<br \/>\nis the sweepings of others<br \/>\nLess and less<br \/>\nthe remainder of you.<br \/>\nmore and more<br \/>\nthis process fills my head.<\/p>\n<p>I have swept out<br \/>\nold boyfriends before<br \/>\nand past occupants before<br \/>\nbut today<br \/>\nI look around and see<br \/>\nhere you scratched to<br \/>\nmake this place yours<\/p>\n<p>When others are sweeping<br \/>\nme up and making me<br \/>\nless and less<br \/>\nthey no doubt will look<br \/>\nless kindly on those marks<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they will remove<br \/>\nus both altogether<br \/>\npausing not at all<br \/>\nin their work<br \/>\nuntil we are only<br \/>\nmemories to each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From long ago, but I thought it was time to put it in here. Bill died in January 2005. For Bill, my cat Each time I sweep I realize more and more of you is leaving hair by hair mote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=3109\">Continue reading <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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[518],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-helpful-cats","tag-cats-helpful-cats"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-O9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}