{"id":1043,"date":"2024-07-31T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2024-08-03T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:23:28","slug":"life-as-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/life-as-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"Life As Clich\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So trite, my boss, balding, puts his hands on my shoulder while I am processing words instead of word processing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you some kind of writer? He asks. When I don\u2019t answer, his hands move up to play with my earrings, which dangle parallel to my cheekbones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you work late tonight?<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He wants to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, I have to fuck him. Certainly, I can\u2019t support myself off my anemic symbolism, my flabby free verse. I need to keep my clerical skills employed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next morning, during dictation, in my embroidered white blouse, crisp to the point of snapping, I remain unaltered. Our eyes meet: his loaded with metaphor; mine without the least suggestion of allusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So trite, my boss, balding, puts his hands on my shoulder while I am processing words instead of word processing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}