{"id":5879,"date":"2019-04-26T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:55:01","slug":"pinky-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/04\/26\/pinky-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinky Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came like the winter,<br \/>\nand a breeze that almost blew,<br \/>\nmy brittle bones away,<br \/>\nonce I spoke too soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Never break a pinky promise,<\/em><br \/>\nand that was set in stone,<br \/>\nalong with the soft rock,<br \/>\nplaying on the radio,<br \/>\nhe never let me turn.<\/p>\n<p>As my fifth finger,<br \/>\nwrapped around his,<br \/>\nI began to question,<br \/>\nhis own motives,<br \/>\nand what he stood against.<\/p>\n<p><em>I like Indie, too.<\/em><br \/>\nHe kept a steady eye,<br \/>\non the back road,<br \/>\nthat lay before,<br \/>\nhis rusting pick up.<\/p>\n<p>I sat in unison,<br \/>\nwith my soda pop,<br \/>\nin the palm of my hand,<br \/>\ncareful not to look,<br \/>\ntoo dreary.<br \/>\nFor he wouldn\u2019t approve,<br \/>\nof anything of that sort.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I stay still,<br \/>\nstaring at the desert sand,<br \/>\nthat scurries past us,<br \/>\nas we go 80,<br \/>\non a speed limit of 60.<br \/>\nI rest my head back,<br \/>\nand close my billowing eyes,<br \/>\nthinking to myself,<br \/>\n<em>I\u2019ve already pinky promised,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and I can\u2019t take it back.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came like the winter, and a breeze that almost blew, my brittle bones away, once I spoke too soon. Never break a pinky promise, and that was set in stone, along with the soft rock, playing on the radio, he never let me turn. As my fifth finger, wrapped around his, I began to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/04\/26\/pinky-promises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pinky Promises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}