{"id":1718,"date":"2012-04-25T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/the-bright-side\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T23:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T05:00:47","slug":"the-bright-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/the-bright-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bright Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When he’s dead,”
\nshe says,
\n“I’ll finally get that dishwasher.”
\n“And when she’s<\/em> dead,”
\nhe says,
\n“I’ll knock a pass-thru to the kitchen.”<\/p>\n

Either could have what they want now
\nbut these are little improvements
\nthey can look forward to
\nas if one day
\nthe end of the world
\ncould have a bright side
\nlike that trip to Europe
\nafter the dog dies. mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

11\/14\/2004<\/small><\/p>\n

\n

There could be an upside to death, at least, for the survivors.<\/p>\n

Listen to The Bright Side<\/a> <\/p>\n

My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n

Update 2012: She got her dishwasher and he got a counter far better than a pass-through and nobody had to die, yet. http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/kitchen-remodeling-for-dummies\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When he’s dead,” she says, “I’ll finally get that dishwasher.” “And when she’s dead,” he says, “I’ll knock a pass-thru to the kitchen.” Either could have what they want now but these are little improvements they can look forward to as if one day the end of the world could have a bright side like … Continue reading The Bright Side<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[68,94],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-death","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}