{"id":1113,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T22:39:48","slug":"honeycombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/1113","title":{"rendered":"Honeycombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a shame when grown-folks see it get to<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>storming and blow <em>it\u2019s time<\/em> <em>to go in. <\/em>What more<br \/>\nare porches made for if not for rain? I know if it<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>were honey and fell steady as it does now<br \/>\nto make sweet candy of the roads, we\u2019d be out there. Hell,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>we\u2019d be swimming in it, our bodies flat and<br \/>\nlaid down like a burden, arms up, even ladies\u2019 legs spread:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>just do anything to be both brown and sugar again.<\/p>\n<p>Though I can see that stickiness fixing itself to the brain,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>treating it like a can, rusting it, then those prayers<br \/>\ncalling out <em>please, Lord, open up with water<\/em> till their skins would<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>no more hum with flies, till every face was clean.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll take my gamble though, belly-sliding through that bee-spit.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>So go on, call me childish, but\u2014be honest, man\u2014<br \/>\nwon\u2019t you join me? Won\u2019t you help me find a road to make<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>a cross out of us, Southern since it\u2019s us,<br \/>\nwhere the only place to go is for you to go in me?<\/p>\n<h6><a title=\"Spring 2010 Contributors\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/693\">Rickey Laurentiis<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a shame when grown-folks see it get to ____storming and blow it\u2019s time to go in. What more are porches made for if not for rain? I know if it ____were honey and fell steady as it does now to make sweet candy of the roads, we\u2019d be out there. Hell, ____we\u2019d be swimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-hX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}