{"id":1592,"date":"2013-12-19T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2015-05-25T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:42:45","slug":"at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"At the Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I saw my own mother, captive<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">gorilla in the humid luminescence<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">of the pit at the zoo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some sort of fight was going on.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">she was cowering under a chlorinated<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">waterfall, wrists to her ears, red-eyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Punks among us on the public concourse<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">taunted my father. He rampaged<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">round the jungle of house plants,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prehensile feet slipping on patio slabs,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">slamming into the steel door.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_1592\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1592\"  data-item_title=\"At the Zoo\"  data-item_date=\"2013-12-19T16:14:25-08:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw my own mother, captive gorilla in the humid luminescence of the pit at the zoo. 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