{"id":115,"date":"2006-05-27T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2006-05-27T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T22:34:15","slug":"men-cry-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/27\/men-cry-too\/","title":{"rendered":"men cry too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mawsie&#8217;s house was on a hill.  When she was old and I was young.  After she died someone sat a bear on her porch.  They killed it and stuffed it and left it there, because it was something to do and they didn&#8217;t want it in the house.  <\/p>\n<p>Her husband passed away some time back in the thirties.   She never had another.   She buried a baby without a name&#8230;.a little boy with a long one&#8230;..a daughter whose man didn&#8217;t want her to live anymore.   <\/p>\n<p>In a rocking chair.  Where the bear sits now.  Sat Mawsie.  Her hair black and bunned.  Her house coat striped in red.   Laughing.  Loud.   That&#8217;s how I remember her.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather buried his head and cried when his momma died.  We never saw him tear.  We never heard his pain.  But we <em>knew<\/em>.  Because Mawsie was gone&#8230;and my grandfather had never buried his head before. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mawsie&#8217;s house was on a hill. When she was old and I was young. After she died someone sat a bear on her porch. They killed it and stuffed it and left it there, because it was something to do and they didn&#8217;t want it in the house. Her husband passed away some time back<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}