{"id":396,"date":"2012-01-01T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T16:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:20:45","slug":"other-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2012\/01\/01\/other-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Other California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say you\u2019re not one of those<br \/>\nlost people in concrete lots<BR><br \/>\nnear Malibu and Zuma\u2014<br \/>\nthe ocean in your eyes <BR><br \/>\nwaves goodbye to the beach<br \/>\nrestaurants where you have<BR><br \/>\nnever ate rockfish tacos\u2014<br \/>\nadmit you\u2019ve not felt the sting<br \/>\nlate fall in Santa Ana winds<BR><br \/>\nas heat blows deep through<br \/>\nthe mind\u2014a dry riverbed<br \/>\nunder California\u2019s lights.<BR><br \/>\nFor you never swam your life<br \/>\nand the water never was\u2014<BR><br \/>\nand the water was never<br \/>\nthe color you swam it. <\/p>\n<p>After living in Barrow (AK), New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, <strong>Bret Shepard<\/strong> is currently a McPhee Fellow in the PhD Program at the University of Nebraska, where he also teaches writing. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>American Letters and Commentary, Copper Nickel, DMQ Review, Hobble Creek Review, Matter, Portland Review<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you\u2019re not one of those lost people in concrete lots near Malibu and Zuma\u2014 the ocean in your eyes waves goodbye to the beach restaurants where you have never ate rockfish tacos\u2014 admit you\u2019ve not felt the sting late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}