{"id":36,"date":"2013-07-05T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:20:30","slug":"the-chicken-girl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"The  \u201cChicken Girl\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The &#8220;Chicken Girl&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">they called you, those who tutted, clucked<br \/>\nbut wouldn\u2019t \u201cinterfere\u201d or help<br \/>\nthe mother who, moustached retard,<br \/>\ncouldn\u2019t cope, left you at home all day,<br \/>\nall night, with feathered foster aunts.<br \/>\nAmong the dust, the dried sick smell<br \/>\nof chicken mash, the one square yard<br \/>\nof sky, fluff, yuk, hexagonal eyes<br \/>\nof wire, square yard of sluttish sand\u2026<br \/>\nAged 10, tiny skull, hands bent back<br \/>\nat the wrist, \u201cunable to communicate<br \/>\nexcept through head-jerking shrieks\u201d<br \/>\nand, rarely, that self-crooning sound<br \/>\nthat dust bath, or contentment, makes\u2026<br \/>\nPerched on the social worker\u2019s lap<br \/>\nI see you, bright disc-membraned eye<br \/>\n(the other side blurred over, scarred<br \/>\nfrom unhealed fights) staring back<br \/>\nat the camera as at a bottle cap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Chicken Girl&#8221; they called you, those who tutted, clucked but wouldn\u2019t \u201cinterfere\u201d or help the mother who, moustached retard, couldn\u2019t cope, left you at home all day, all night, with feathered foster aunts. Among the dust, the dried sick smell of chicken mash, the one square yard of sky, fluff, yuk, hexagonal eyes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/503"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithchandlerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}