{"id":51,"date":"2011-07-19T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2015-01-11T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T16:02:22","slug":"summer-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Summer Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Summer Afternoon\r\n\r\nLying against the sand\r\nendlessly active eyes\r\npeer out from my\r\nwater-filled, resting head.\r\n\r\n\u201cAll men are created equal,\u201d he\u2019d said.\r\n\r\n\u201cAll people are created equally,\u201d I\u2019d corrected him\r\naware that the slight was unnecessary.\r\n\r\nThrough the grass\r\nand burning, sun-baked body\r\nthe short, chubby legs\r\n of an inquisitive two year old\r\nappear\r\na wet Irish Setter\r\nattracts her Chinese eyes.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s human nature to be dissatisfied,\u201d he\u2019d said.\r\n\u201cPeople always seek to satisfy greater sets of needs,\u201d he\u2019d said.\r\n\u201cThink of the Maslovian hierarchy,\u201d he\u2019d said.\r\n\r\nTurning eyes down\r\nan oversized, purple derriere\r\nsmiles to me\r\nadjusting a stone-filled sandal.\r\n\r\nMy head rolls\r\nto the other side of the beach.\r\n\r\nPlump black stems\r\nfold into a contrastingly white\r\nbaggy diaper\r\nand laughs as funny Daddy\u2019s glasses\r\nslide down her\r\npebble nose.\r\n\r\n\u201cNo.  Social inequalities require dissatisfaction,\u201d I\u2019d said.\r\n\u201cThe hungry don\u2019t know about Maslow,\u201d I\u2019d said.\r\n\r\nThin yellow thighs\r\nrelieve the child\r\nof the inquisitive nose of the Setter.\r\n\r\nA strong wind blows over the beach\r\nand everybody shudders.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Afternoon Lying against the sand endlessly active eyes peer out from my water-filled, resting head. \u201cAll men are created equal,\u201d he\u2019d said. \u201cAll people are created equally,\u201d I\u2019d corrected him aware that the slight was unnecessary. Through the grass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}