{"id":7901,"date":"2018-04-27T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7901"},"modified":"2018-04-27T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T18:41:30","slug":"different-strokes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7901","title":{"rendered":"Different Strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew Byrne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I commissioned my artist friend to paint<br \/>\na starlit evening on our nursery ceiling.<br \/>\nHe struggled at first, pacing the room,<br \/>\nobsessively scaling his ladder. The job<br \/>\nwas beneath him, but he needed the money.<br \/>\nSomething had to be done, so I burned<br \/>\nhis obscure punk cds into my computer,<br \/>\nso he could listen to his music randomly<br \/>\nshuffling and without interruption.<br \/>\nHe finished the very next day, but instead<br \/>\nof the tranquil twilight I envisioned, I got<br \/>\na maelstrom brewing around a moon more<br \/>\nmenacing than an axe-wielding lunatic.<br \/>\nI paid up, made the nursery our bedroom,<br \/>\nand my wife and I have never slept better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MATTHEW BYRNE<\/strong>&#8216;s poems have been published in known and obscure journals. He won the Sow&#8217;s Ear Chapbook award in 2013 and was included in the Heather-McHugh-edited 2007 <em>Best American Poetry<\/em> anthology. He sells insurance for a living in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Byrne &nbsp; &nbsp; I commissioned my artist friend to paint a starlit evening on our nursery ceiling. He struggled at first, pacing the room, obsessively scaling his ladder. The job was beneath him, but he needed the money. Something &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7901\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7896,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-23r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7901","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=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7911,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7901\/revisions\/7911"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}