{"id":185,"date":"2016-06-15T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2016-06-15T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:50:39","slug":"tight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/sample-writing\/tight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our table chairs<br \/>\nwobble when sat on,<br \/>\nshe says,<br \/>\nor haven\u2019t I noticed<br \/>\nthose wooden groans?<br \/>\nI turn them upside down<br \/>\nand see the years,<br \/>\nhow they\u2019ve loosened<br \/>\nhigh backs from seats<br \/>\nand mitered braces,<br \/>\nscrews with no bite<br \/>\nin widened holes.<br \/>\nI\u2019m looking at separation,<br \/>\nthinking<br \/>\nabout thicker screws,<br \/>\nabout switching to inch,<br \/>\nmaybe inch and a half,<br \/>\nwhen my father<br \/>\nand his trick appear<br \/>\nout of a dark nowhere:<br \/>\ntoothpicks or<br \/>\na matchstick<br \/>\ndepending on the size<br \/>\nof the hole<br \/>\nthat seems to grow larger<br \/>\nthe closer I look,<br \/>\nan everyday small black hole.<br \/>\nI go with a matchstick,<br \/>\nslide it in,<br \/>\nthen the screw,<br \/>\nthen turn to happy resistance,<br \/>\nthe squeak of dry wood<br \/>\nthe tighter I turn,<br \/>\nthe black crack closing<br \/>\nto a mahogany seam<br \/>\nand we\u2019re tight again.<br \/>\nI wink at Phyllis, laugh,<br \/>\nand tap my Polack temple<br \/>\njust as my father did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our table chairs wobble when sat on, she says, or haven\u2019t I noticed those wooden groans? I turn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":174,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}