{"id":17,"date":"2026-08-01T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:29:24","slug":"riding-the-brown-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/riding-the-brown-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"RIDING THE BROWN HORSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"wp-image-36\" style=\"width: 64px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horse-64.png\" alt=\"\"><br><br>feeling like a cosmic criminal <br>like a stray dog <br>living on cosmic crumbs <br><br>invisible chains of shame<br>pull me down <br>the brown river  <br>a dead fish on its back<br><br>when I look up<br>my eye caught the silhouette <br>of her leg <br>perfectly curved <br>like ten exploding suns <br><br>the smell of the earth and rain<br>the moon like cotton wool<br>enlightening a red and gold pagoda<br><br>early morning chanting <br>channeling the pulsating life force<br>back into my body <br>through my skull and back<br><br><strong>PIETER KEEVE \u00a9  2026<br><\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>feeling like a cosmic criminal like a stray dog living on cosmic crumbs invisible chains of shamepull me down the brown river a dead fish on its backwhen I look upmy eye caught the silhouette of her leg perfectly curved like ten exploding suns the smell of the earth and rainthe moon like cotton woolenlightening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riding-the-brown-horse","tag-poetry-of-life-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieterkeeve.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}