{"id":6971,"date":"2015-12-02T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6971"},"modified":"2015-12-02T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:56:35","slug":"the-dream-before-the-frog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6971","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Before the Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heikki Huotari<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Science Daily says if I&#8217;m an artificial<br \/>\natom and I hang out near my mirror<br \/>\nthen I&#8217;ll live ten times as long<br \/>\nso I prioritize my images by wingspan,<br \/>\nsize and color in a velvet box. Because<br \/>\nI have no children and have never<br \/>\nbeen in prison or a foxhole,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still free to disbelieve.<br \/>\nAnd I have three degrees of freedom.<br \/>\nNothing rotates quite like pie at night<br \/>\nwhen I&#8217;m invisible in my gorilla mask<br \/>\nand astrally projected and Madonna<br \/>\nand I share an office while we&#8217;re young,<br \/>\nmoonlighting as adjunct professors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEIKKI HUOTARI<\/strong> is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems have appeared in several journals, including <em>Poetry Northwest<\/em> and <em>Crazyhorse<\/em>. A chapbook is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heikki Huotari Science Daily says if I&#8217;m an artificial atom and I hang out near my mirror then I&#8217;ll live ten times as long so I prioritize my images by wingspan, size and color in a velvet box. Because I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6969,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6971","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Or","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6971","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=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6978,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6971\/revisions\/6978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}