{"id":1064,"date":"2015-03-03T01:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T01:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1064"},"modified":"2015-03-03T01:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T01:44:47","slug":"an-axe-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1064","title":{"rendered":"An Axe (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Axe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What did he feel<\/p>\n<p>a balding old man<\/p>\n<p>past the age of grandfather<\/p>\n<p>staring down at his only son<\/p>\n<p>innocent<\/p>\n<p>lying on a block<\/p>\n<p>ready to be sliced like<\/p>\n<p>meat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did he cringe?<\/p>\n<p>Retch in vomit of blood to come?<\/p>\n<p>Did he wish to<\/p>\n<p>slice his faith instead<\/p>\n<p>of his son?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His son?<\/p>\n<p>Did he understand at nine<\/p>\n<p>the test of five thousand<\/p>\n<p>years of growing?<\/p>\n<p>Could he imagine that he was the<\/p>\n<p>crucial meeting of space and time<\/p>\n<p>to be recorded forever?<\/p>\n<p>Did he see his father&#8217;s eyes?<\/p>\n<p>See the tears and feel the regret?<\/p>\n<p>What did he know?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When it came<\/p>\n<p>and the test was over<\/p>\n<p>the lesson learned<\/p>\n<p>When they clutched like lovers<\/p>\n<p>separated by an instant of<\/p>\n<p>eternity<\/p>\n<p>and the axe buried<\/p>\n<p>the handle turned to black dots<\/p>\n<p>in the sky<\/p>\n<p>When that test was over<\/p>\n<p>what did they feel?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Axe by Marc Mangel &nbsp; What did he feel a balding old man past the age of grandfather staring down at his only son innocent lying on a block ready to be sliced like meat &nbsp; Did he cringe? Retch in vomit of blood to come? Did he wish to slice his faith instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1064\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1064","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}