{"id":3419,"date":"2019-11-19T04:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2020-10-09T23:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:23:34","slug":"little-princes-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/little-princes-grown\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Princes, Grown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/avra-margariti\/\">Avra Margariti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>All our foxholes have been found out<br>hounds baying down the weeping wheat fields<br>hunters\u2019 boots crushing soil and root.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n<!--noteaser-->\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/avra-margariti\/\">Avra Margariti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All our foxholes have been found out<br>hounds baying down the weeping wheat fields<br>hunters\u2019 boots crushing soil and root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if the Serpent of Eden\u2019s temptation<br>had been a rose rather than an apple?<br>I would have done anything to see her again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where did you fly away to?<br>Did you think of the sheep and all your graphite creations?<br>I wonder, up in the skies, do you ever think of me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time we spoke on the phone<br>you said, \u201cThis is it for me, old boy.<br>The baobabs have overgrown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9\u00a0Copyright 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/avra-margariti\/\">Avra Margariti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image round-img is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/avra_margariti-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5161\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Avra Margariti is a queer Social Work undergrad from Greece. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms and writes about diverse identities and experiences. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>Flash Fiction Online, The Forge Literary,&nbsp;SmokeLong Quarterly,&nbsp;The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Argot Magazine, The Arcanist,&nbsp;<\/em>and other venues<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Avra won the 2019 Bacopa Literary Review prize for fiction. You can find her on twitter @avramargariti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Avra Margariti All our foxholes have been found outhounds baying down the weeping wheat fieldshunters&rsquo; boots crushing soil and root.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}