{"id":2489,"date":"2009-07-08T03:18:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T08:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2009-07-08T03:32:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T08:32:37","slug":"day-188-i-have-come-home-to-wash-my-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/poetry\/day-188-i-have-come-home-to-wash-my-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 188: I Have Come Home to Wash My Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3699890881\/\" title=\"Day 188: I Have Come Home to Wash My Clothes by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2622\/3699890881_cb5df6f0b5_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Day 188: I Have Come Home to Wash My Clothes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could write erotic poetry about laundry day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericajong.com\/poems\/dirtylaundrypoem.htm\">like Erica Jong does<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>This is the dirty laundry poem\u2014<br \/>\nbecause we have traveled from town to town<br \/>\naccumulating soiled linen &#038; sweaty shirts<br \/>\n&#038; blue-jeans caked &#038; clotted with our juice<br \/>\n&#038; teeshirts crumpled by our gloriously messy passion<br \/>\n&#038; underwear made stiff by all our joy. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>No, my laundry poetry would sound a little more like<\/p>\n<p><i>This shirt, perfectly clean<br \/>\nhas been kicked from corner to corner<br \/>\nabsent a hanger<br \/>\naccumulating dust and cat hair<br \/>\nuntil it&#8217;s as filthy as everything else<br \/>\nthat comes through here<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which poem would embarrass my mother more. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157611984534859\/\">Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could write erotic poetry about laundry day like Erica Jong does: This is the dirty laundry poem\u2014 because we have traveled from town to town accumulating soiled linen &#038; sweaty shirts &#038; blue-jeans caked &#038; clotted with our juice &#038; teeshirts crumpled by our gloriously messy passion &#038; underwear made stiff by all our joy. No, my laundry poetry would sound a little more like This shirt, perfectly clean has been kicked&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[234,683],"tags":[2176,1198,1196,1197,705,2211],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-project-365-2009","tag-anatomy-of-an-apartment","tag-cleaning","tag-erica-jong","tag-erotica","tag-laundry","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-E9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}