{"id":876,"date":"2024-09-10T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=876"},"modified":"2024-09-10T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:52:14","slug":"patches-by-margaret-rucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Patches (by Margaret Rucker)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wear a silken flower on my shoulder,<br>An orchid made of velvet and of lace,<br>Because a hard wind, driving through my garden,<br>Of its carousals left relentless trace<br>In broken stems and darkened leaves.    This autumn<br>I wear a silken flower in their place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My marble god lies broken in the garden,<br>But I will patch him till he looks like new,<br>So people will not guess that he is shattered,<br>A lifeless Eros made of stone and glue.<br>And since I&#8217;ve learned to patch, you needn&#8217;t love me<br>If but for a while you will pretend you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Margaret Rucker, unpublished during her life (1907-1959). Her scrapbook was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_(album)\">rescued from a garbage bin<\/a> by Chicken John Rinaldi, and some of her works were published in a book and concept album about her by Jason Webley and friends in 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wear a silken flower on my shoulder,An orchid made of velvet and of lace,Because a hard wind, driving through my garden,Of its carousals left relentless traceIn broken stems and darkened leaves. This autumnI wear a silken flower in their place. My marble god lies broken in the garden,But I will patch him till he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}