{"id":409,"date":"2013-05-14T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:54:33","slug":"they-are-breaking-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/they-are-breaking-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"They Are Breaking the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>shredding the barn, lining up<br \/>\ntiny red blue green toy soldiers for sale.<br \/>\nThe grasses have dried to flame ,<br \/>\nthe stairs are dust and customers roam<br \/>\nall the rooms picking up, putting down<br \/>\nbooks and cups, silks and soft<br \/>\neider pillows. Even the mountain<br \/>\nbeyond the wide back porch<br \/>\nis up for sale next to the undressed dolls<br \/>\nand bottles of lemon polish.<br \/>\nI walk the hallways calling\u00a0<em>It\u2019s me \u2014<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Me who was here first! I was the first child!<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Why are you selling up?<br \/>\n<\/em>The brown clapboards still smell<br \/>\nof creosote. Out front, thick maples<br \/>\nswell to green above the jonquil patch.<br \/>\nI turn, dazed \u2014 my hands cupped out<br \/>\nas though to catch everything falling away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shredding the barn, lining up tiny red blue green toy soldiers for sale. The grasses have dried to flame , the stairs are dust and customers roam all the rooms picking up, putting down books and cups, silks and soft eider pillows. Even the mountain beyond the wide back porch is up for sale next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/they-are-breaking-the-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They Are Breaking the House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6875],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6875"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 07:48:33","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\/409","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\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}