{"id":76,"date":"2011-07-01T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T00:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:21:02","slug":"76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2011\/07\/01\/76\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friends Call it Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You were lucky even before I knew you,<\/em> he said. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been the type to think that luck isn\u2019t something inborn, but it does seem that luck\u2019s dog and I have become pretty tight over the years, she replied.  <\/p>\n<p>The dog has fleas, I start scratching, dog gets a bone, I feel high, she added.  <\/p>\n<p>But this kind of luckamentation hasn\u2019t always been good for the relationship between my pals and me.  <\/p>\n<p>People want you to be luckariffic, but what they mean is the unexpected triumph of good.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nStating your lucky dog gets fleas, do you mean that you suffer more than usual?  That your allotment of suffering is greater than the national average?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It feels that way, though I\u2019m no martyr.  I can get off the couch anytime I want, as the dog likes to say.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Luck-o-rama sucks sometimes is what you\u2019re saying.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nA luckified life takes distance. The dog barks or gives you a kiss, you just keep one hand on its bony head\u2014try to fight it, you\u2019ll melt. <\/p>\n<p><BR><BR><BR><BR><strong>Kate Martin Rowe\u2019<\/strong>s poems have appeared in <em>The Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, Eclipse <\/em>and the online journals <em>Chaparral<\/em> and <em>Prick of the Spindle<\/em> among others.  She teaches composition at LA City College and Glendale Community College and lives in Eagle Rock with her husband and two very lazy cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were lucky even before I knew you, he said. I\u2019ve always been the type to think that luck isn\u2019t something inborn, but it does seem that luck\u2019s dog and I have become pretty tight over the years, she replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22064],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}