The sort of charm of pipes and shaving kits and things made of leather.
\nThe charm of men who drink Jenever
\nand fought in the war.<\/p>\n
They are old men.
\nOur fathers or grandfathers.
\nCharming with their tweed and antique handguns and easy masculinity.<\/p>\n
They wish they spoke like Hemingway,
\nso they chop their feelings instead of their sentences,
\nshow their affection by talking about your car.<\/p>\n
“You dress like an old man,” my last girlfriend said about my hat.
\nI want to skip straight to old, missing awkward and gawky and this second puberty.
\nI envy them their beards,
\ntheir unquestioned assumptions,
\ntheir bodies which, at least once, matched
\nbefore they needed doctors to make things work.
\nWe have that much in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The sort of charm of pipes and shaving kits and things made of leather. The charm of men who drink Jenever and fought in the war. They are old men. Our fathers or grandfathers. Charming with their tweed and antique handguns and easy masculinity. They wish they spoke like Hemingway, so they chop their feelings … Continue reading Old Men<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,176,186],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-gender","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}