{"id":10546,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2015-03-14T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T19:17:58","slug":"glinda-and-the-astronomer-talk-about-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10546","title":{"rendered":"Glinda and the Astronomer Talk about Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He slips her some vocabulary,<br \/>\n<em>occlude<\/em>, one star drops in front<br \/>\nof another, blending their outlines.<br \/>\nHard to see they are twins, Collaborative<br \/>\nconstellating, when six shrug down to five,<br \/>\nlion becomes bear, the world is simplified, realigned. <\/p>\n<p>When she walks his dog at night, she can see<br \/>\nthe shadow of his body in the apartment above,<br \/>\nlooking down, cannot tell whether he is trying<br \/>\nto speak. His face blocks the light, is all shadows.<br \/>\nShe describes Oz as brilliant, and the astronomer asks<br \/>\nher how bright the lights are, if perhaps at night<br \/>\nthey were dim enough to see the stars, a trick <\/p>\n<p>the wizard learned from Kansas before the fair.<br \/>\nShe doesn\u2019t want to talk about the wizard,<br \/>\nhow he assembled astronomy for her birthday<br \/>\nin the throne room, how acrobatic the star<br \/>\non the left wrist of the shining Colossus was, how<br \/>\nwhen he tumbled, the whole room slowly waved.<br \/>\nHow she felt tears rise to think of devotion this way \u2014 variable.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10400\">Sarah Ann Winn<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He slips her some vocabulary, occlude, one star drops in front of another, blending their outlines. Hard to see they are twins, Collaborative constellating, when six shrug down to five, lion becomes bear, the world is simplified, realigned. When she walks his dog at night, she can see the shadow of his body in the [&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-2K6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546"}],"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=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10547,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/10547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}