{"id":10428,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=10428"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:16:09","slug":"my-grandmothers-vibrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10428","title":{"rendered":"My Grandmother\u2019s Vibrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the heir of her things<br \/>\nwhether I like it or not.<br \/>\nA half-bottle of coral nail polish,<br \/>\nher toothbrush, the sharp anger<br \/>\nshe left hanging about the house. <\/p>\n<p>We are almost out of boxes.<br \/>\nHow to pack the Darjeeling perfume,<br \/>\nthe blonde hair she bobby-pinned<br \/>\nand curled before suppers.<br \/>\nWhat red her lips left <\/p>\n<p>on my grandfather\u2019s cheek.<br \/>\nWhere do we store the things<br \/>\nwe knew and we didn\u2019t know,<br \/>\nlike her pleasure? Somewhere, <\/p>\n<p>she is sipping her Cathead Vodka<br \/>\nand slipping out of silk dresses<br \/>\nthat I fold into boxes.<br \/>\nThis is what death gives <\/p>\n<p>you: a vibrator, a set of green<br \/>\nceramic birds, the faded pink robe<br \/>\nthat she draped by the tub.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10400\">Amy Fant<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the heir of her things whether I like it or not. A half-bottle of coral nail polish, her toothbrush, the sharp anger she left hanging about the house. We are almost out of boxes. How to pack the Darjeeling perfume, the blonde hair she bobby-pinned and curled before suppers. What red her lips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2Ic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10429,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions\/10429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}