{"id":8022,"date":"2019-01-22T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8022"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:05:46","slug":"takeover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8022","title":{"rendered":"Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Grey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Something\u2019s moving through old town,<br \/>\na shadow, a shape,<br \/>\na humming sound.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSome people see,<br \/>\nothers hear,<br \/>\nsome sense it like the breeze.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf they\u2019re not thinking,<br \/>\nit\u2019s the default in the brain,<br \/>\nnot feeling,<br \/>\nit takes over the heart.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can tell by the eyes,<br \/>\nblank as brick walls,<br \/>\nif that something\u2019s moved in.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOr an ashen look on the face,<br \/>\na double shake of the head,<br \/>\nif it\u2019s being resisted.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut that something is patient<br \/>\nand insistent.<br \/>\nEventually,<br \/>\neveryone succumbs.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAvoid old town<br \/>\nis my advice.<br \/>\nUnless, of course,<br \/>\nyou\u2019re so weary<br \/>\nof piloting your own life,<br \/>\nyou\u2019re willing for this other<br \/>\nto take the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN GREY <\/strong>is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in the <em>Homestead Review<\/em>, <em>Harpur Palate<\/em>, and <em>Columbia Review<\/em> with work upcoming in the <em>Roanoke Review<\/em>, the <em>Hawaii Review<\/em> and <em>North Dakota Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Grey &nbsp; &nbsp; Something\u2019s moving through old town, a shadow, a shape, a humming sound. &nbsp; Some people see, others hear, some sense it like the breeze. &nbsp; If they\u2019re not thinking, it\u2019s the default in the brain, not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":8017,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-25o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8022","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=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8036,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8022\/revisions\/8036"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}