{"id":6601,"date":"2024-01-16T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:40:18","slug":"cheap-sonnet-no-28f-in-which-the-poet-observes-a-child-behaving-disgustingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2024\/01\/16\/cheap-sonnet-no-28f-in-which-the-poet-observes-a-child-behaving-disgustingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Sonnet No. 28F.  In Which the Poet Observes a Child Behaving Disgustingly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make y\u2019all of winter what you will:<br \/>\nThe pine trees, tufted like old men\u2019s ears,<br \/>\nThe disappearing footprints of a sparrow,<br \/>\nTire-tread slush translucent in the sun.<br \/>\nGlobal warming? Honey, it\u2019s the South.<br \/>\nOne good sled run wears the track to mud,<br \/>\nBut dogs and children, mittenless and yelping,<br \/>\nWear it regardless, gravelled snowballs pelting.<br \/>\nAnd if the wide-eyed wondering girl<br \/>\nWith fat and frosty fingers in her mouth<br \/>\nSlurped her skyfall from a grimy fender<br \/>\nBird-shat, bug-splattered beneath its sparkly splendor\u2014<br \/>\nLet her father shrug, and drink his beer.<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t much. It will be gone tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make y\u2019all of winter what you will: The pine trees, tufted like old men\u2019s ears, The disappearing footprints of a sparrow, Tire-tread slush translucent in the sun. Global warming? Honey, it\u2019s the South. One good sled run wears the track to mud, But dogs and children, mittenless and yelping, Wear it regardless, gravelled snowballs pelting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[82,642,341,402],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-1It","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}