{"id":1443,"date":"2017-05-24T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:52:19","slug":"el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/el-paso\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Cowpokes spun lasso diction<br \/>\nacross a white girl\u2019s youth.<br \/>\nStorefronts seemed larger<br \/>\nthan they were just as<br \/>\nwhat I presented was flat.<br \/>\nA mustache on one man\u2019s lip<br \/>\nstood for passion, on another\u2019s<br \/>\nmeant death. What was I to do<br \/>\nwith the heavy weight of skirts?<br \/>\nA horse was a loved thing,<br \/>\nits eye-lashed eye the place<br \/>\nI could disappear to,<br \/>\nbut not one day passed<br \/>\nthat softened my face,<br \/>\neverything being as it was<br \/>\nchoked by a west Texas wind.<br \/>\nOnly the light held me, its grave<br \/>\ndistance making me weep.<br \/>\nThe air itself was brash,<br \/>\nand at dusk mestizo blood<br \/>\ncolored the dirt with trouble.<br \/>\nA woman fast becomes a man<br \/>\nwhen the pressures are right,<br \/>\nbut now, lifetimes later,<br \/>\nit\u2019s the horse\u2019s eye I remember.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowpokes spun lasso diction across a white girl\u2019s youth. Storefronts seemed larger than they were just as what I presented was flat. A mustache on one man\u2019s lip stood for passion, on another\u2019s meant death. What was I to do with the heavy weight of skirts? A horse was a loved thing, its eye-lashed eye &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/el-paso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">El Paso<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6871],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6871"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 04:34:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}