{"id":693,"date":"2007-04-01T19:51:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T23:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/01\/josephine-dickinson-do-i-sleep\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:54:47","slug":"josephine-dickinson-do-i-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/01\/josephine-dickinson-do-i-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Dickinson, &#8220;Do I Sleep With You?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Do I sleep with you or you with me?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s splitting hairs to say I came to you<br \/>\nand use your brush and comb, and therefore we<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t &#8220;sleep together.&#8221; But it may be true.<br \/>\nIn any case, I say you sleep with me.<br \/>\nThe action&#8217;s mostly yours. You made me stay.<br \/>\nMade staying perfect, future and to be.<br \/>\nApart from that, it&#8217;s what most people say.<br \/>\nTributaries join rivers, but they mix,<br \/>\ngo to somewhere, neither cares to where.<br \/>\nBoth stand and swell their bank beside a tree.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re not concerned with any verbal tricks.<br \/>\nSo, say I joined your river, if you dare.<br \/>\nIn any case, I say you sleep with me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0618718710\"><i>Slience Fell<\/i><\/a>, the American debut collection from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/384\/story\/1075772.html\">Josephine Dickson<\/a>, which, drawing upon several volumes published in the UK, tells the story of her marriage to a Cumbrian sheep farmer who was more than twice her age when they met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I sleep with you or you with me? It&#8217;s splitting hairs to say I came to you and use your brush and comb, and therefore we don&#8217;t &#8220;sleep together.&#8221; But it may be true. In any case, I say you sleep with me. The action&#8217;s mostly yours. You made me stay. Made staying perfect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}