{"id":568,"date":"2022-10-31T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:26:21","slug":"dog-cage-for-a-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Dog Cage for a Mouth by Caleb Bethea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astrology boys vaping at the moon. A pack of laughing and the speculating of signs, a theory of miracles. Then, their limbs rattling around in my jaws. The sounds of a locked-up puppy, or a whole litter of restless bodies \u2014 cheap metal shaking as their owner opens, closes the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Caleb Bethea is an MFA at UofSC, studying fiction by night. By day, he works as a copywriter. But, the best of his time is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. You can read his work elsewhere in<\/em>\u00a0HAD,\u00a0Maudlin House,\u00a0Unstamatic, Twin Pies, Bear Creek,<em> and elsewhere. He tweets at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caleb_bethea_\" target=\"_blank\">@caleb_bethea_<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Astrology boys vaping at the moon. A pack of laughing and the speculating of signs, a theory of miracles. Then, their limbs rattling around in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=568\" title=\"Dog Cage for a Mouth by Caleb Bethea\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}