{"id":7403,"date":"2017-01-07T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7403"},"modified":"2017-01-07T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T06:04:19","slug":"gonzo-feline-dream","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7403","title":{"rendered":"Gonzo Feline Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heather Lee Rogers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cat will only<br \/>\neat ballerinas now<br \/>\nI brought home<br \/>\njust one tutu<br \/>\nand her blood lust<br \/>\nlaid it down<br \/>\nlike sunsets in soup cans<br \/>\nour supply hits<br \/>\nhot rod tail spins<br \/>\nso we roar off<br \/>\nthrough all deserts<br \/>\nbreaking cardinal laws<br \/>\nspeeding records<br \/>\nprinciples of physics<br \/>\nshe smokes and tells me<br \/>\nwe should only eat<br \/>\nwhat we can catch<br \/>\nsets her iPhone GPS<br \/>\nto the nearest grand ballet<br \/>\nI let her drive, kick back<br \/>\nand drink a rootbeer float<br \/>\nas time drifts off<br \/>\nin melted desert skies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEATHER LEE ROGERS<\/strong> tells stories as a writer and an actor in NYC. Recent poetry publications have included <em>Harbinger Asylum<\/em> (online and in print), <em>Here Comes Everyone<\/em> (online and in print in the U.K.), <em>The Rat&#8217;s Ass Review<\/em> (online), <em>S\/Tick<\/em> (online and in print), <em>Waterways<\/em> (in print) and <em>Adanna Literary Journal<\/em> (in print). She has been a featured performer at the Art House open mic in Jersey City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Lee Rogers &nbsp; The cat will only eat ballerinas now I brought home just one tutu and her blood lust laid it down like sunsets in soup cans our supply hits hot rod tail spins so we roar off &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7402,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7403","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Vp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7403","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=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7411,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7403\/revisions\/7411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}