{"id":10541,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2015-03-14T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T19:13:00","slug":"children-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10541","title":{"rendered":"Children of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enigmatic as elbows<br \/>\nyou are for me<br \/>\nlike carrots and kale<br \/>\npurple-painted toes<br \/>\nand unswept slivers of glass \u2014<br \/>\nsmall and overlooked<br \/>\nsharp as a morning mind.<\/p>\n<p>I am here so you can learn to do for yourselves:<br \/>\ntenderly turn through books<br \/>\nhold a plate one hand on each side<br \/>\nyour slight shoulders back<br \/>\nfeet steady and slow<br \/>\nguiding with heels that base<br \/>\nnot debase. Put your nose to my ear.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s rehearse<br \/>\nthose exquisite exhales<br \/>\nlong and calm through the bends<br \/>\nof everyone else\u2019s emotions<br \/>\nand it is work not to make it<br \/>\nall about us obsessed as we are with ourselves.<br \/>\nI know only what it is to be me \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>rich in retrospection<br \/>\nin search of something<br \/>\nstronger than oxygen, two<br \/>\nand a half decades deep<br \/>\nin pineapple skin, adrift this<br \/>\ncelestial toilet bowl, this plague, a page ripped<br \/>\nfrom the middle of a mother who meant well.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10400\">Ashley Trabue<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enigmatic as elbows you are for me like carrots and kale purple-painted toes and unswept slivers of glass \u2014 small and overlooked sharp as a morning mind. I am here so you can learn to do for yourselves: tenderly turn through books hold a plate one hand on each side your slight shoulders back feet [&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-2K1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541"}],"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=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10543,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions\/10543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}