{"id":10548,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2015-03-14T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T19:19:18","slug":"glinda-and-miss-havisham-discuss-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10548","title":{"rendered":"Glinda and Miss Havisham Discuss Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked pink so my white hair<br \/>\nand the virgin dress wouldn\u2019t<br \/>\nspur comments. How I loved<br \/>\nits sparkling teflon brush-off.<br \/>\nNeighbors, pesky as flying<br \/>\nmonkeys, smiled past, unspeaking.<br \/>\nIts uncrushable skirt was my<br \/>\nfenced-off yard, barely within<br \/>\nzoning. It protected me from those<br \/>\nwith a tendency to lean in.<br \/>\nThe question of what to wear<br \/>\never after never came.<br \/>\nEven out of fashion, not<br \/>\nthe basic black, the blue-checked<br \/>\nbride-to-be with her basket,<br \/>\nher effortless ingenue<br \/>\nbraids. I wore tulle all over,<br \/>\ndown every yellow bricked aisle,<br \/>\nevery emerald minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Havisham, did you<br \/>\nknow you can replace it, shop<br \/>\nwith the crowd for brand new<br \/>\nduplicate selves? You can look<br \/>\nalmost like everyone else,<br \/>\nonly better, as long as<br \/>\nyou\u2019re like everyone else. Size<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t matter, long as you<br \/>\nalready fit. Please, dear, don\u2019t<br \/>\ngo there. I\u2019ll help with buttons,<br \/>\nmy dress is gathering road dust,<br \/>\nand I\u2019m done. Please, take mine.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/10400\">Sarah Ann Winn<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked pink so my white hair and the virgin dress wouldn\u2019t spur comments. How I loved its sparkling teflon brush-off. Neighbors, pesky as flying monkeys, smiled past, unspeaking. Its uncrushable skirt was my fenced-off yard, barely within zoning. It protected me from those with a tendency to lean in. The question of what to [&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-2K8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548"}],"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=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}