{"id":10400,"date":"2010-12-18T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2010-12-18T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:24:23","slug":"ansie-baird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10400","title":{"rendered":"ANSIE BAIRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What We Have Done<\/p>\n<p>My mother shrugged off life<br \/>\nThree thousand miles from Paris,<br \/>\nCity of her birth. It takes<br \/>\nTwo weeks of bureaucratic tape<br \/>\nBefore I fly her scant remains<br \/>\nFrom Buffalo to this historic place,<br \/>\nMay 9, 1975, a fine night<br \/>\nFor being scattered, if ever<br \/>\nThere was one. Co-conspirators,<br \/>\nWe creep beneath the Pont Neuf,<br \/>\nMy mother and I, she beneath<br \/>\nMy coat in a cold container,<br \/>\nAnd then I dump her in the Seine,<br \/>\nAs I promised to do.<\/p>\n<p>How her dozing old bones<br \/>\nMust gape at the ancient stones.<br \/>\nHow surely my mother laughs<br \/>\nAt what we have done, laughs<br \/>\nTo have come home like this,<br \/>\nLaughs and laughs from her sandbar<br \/>\nIn the Seine where she lies<br \/>\nLike fragments of an old ghost,<br \/>\nThe ashes of a medieval saint,<br \/>\nIn the mud of her resting place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Have Done My mother shrugged off life Three thousand miles from Paris, City of her birth. It takes Two weeks of bureaucratic tape Before I fly her scant remains From Buffalo to this historic place, May 9, 1975, a fine night For being scattered, if ever There was one. Co-conspirators, We creep beneath the Pont Neuf, My mother and I, she beneath My coat in a cold container, And then I dump her&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2HK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}