my best friend in second
\ngrade told me two untruths –
\none, she had a dirt
\ncollection stored in glass jars
\nin her closet – two, that
\na plague was looming called
\n“the Blue Pox” – neither dirt
\nnor pox forthcoming, to my
\nvast disappointment slash relief –
\nit’s puzzling even now – why lie? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
my best friend in second grade told me two untruths – one, she had a dirt collection stored in glass jars in her closet – two, that a plague was looming called “the Blue Pox” – neither dirt nor pox forthcoming, to my vast disappointment slash relief – it’s puzzling even now – why lie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-of-gems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/indra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}