{"id":6791,"date":"2015-08-06T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6791"},"modified":"2015-08-06T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:51:32","slug":"yoel-the-chickenkeeper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6791","title":{"rendered":"Yoel the Chickenkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael D\u00edaz Feito<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yoel the Chickenkeeper jostled cherry-red canisters into the coop. His sick chickens jigged suspiciously. In a cone of their patinated eyes, UV rays flecked like epilepsy. Yoel sighed and said, \u201cYou see more of things, Pipa, Claudia, Fea, Loca, and the rest of you. <em>Pero . . . la gripe, concho<\/em>.\u201d If he had read the classics, Yoel might have lamented, <em>O coffee-sweet chickens, more than my eyeballs I\u2019ve loved you!<\/em> But he didn\u2019t. The fire extinguishers frothed the coop, a smothering meringue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MICHAEL D\u00cdAZ FEITO<\/strong> is a Cuban American writer from Miami, Florida. His work has been published in <em>Mangrove<\/em>, <em>The Acentos Review<\/em>, <em>Jai-Alai Magazine<\/em>, <em>theEEEL<\/em>, and <em>Axolotl <\/em>(forthcoming). He currently dwells in Inwood, Manhattan, with his girlfriend Naomi and their dog Finn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael D\u00edaz Feito Yoel the Chickenkeeper jostled cherry-red canisters into the coop. His sick chickens jigged suspiciously. In a cone of their patinated eyes, UV rays flecked like epilepsy. Yoel sighed and said, \u201cYou see more of things, Pipa, Claudia, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6789,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6791","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6791\/revisions\/6807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}