{"id":12819,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2016-08-01T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:07:19","slug":"in-august-i-undress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12819","title":{"rendered":"In August, I Undress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer turns my skin<br \/>\nto brown sugar, sweet-dark<br \/>\nand speckled. Light <\/p>\n<p>runs its mouth<br \/>\nacross my collarbone and drinks<br \/>\nthe shadow pooled there.<\/p>\n<p>Even my hair changes&#8211;<br \/>\neach strand on my thigh<br \/>\na sliver of soft gold.<\/p>\n<p>But there are boundaries,<br \/>\nparts distinct and separate<br \/>\nas countries marked on a map.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8211;<br \/>\ntwo islands of white sand and<br \/>\none deep, quiet valley,<\/p>\n<p>each summit&#8217;s<br \/>\npale unsullied peak bright as salt<br \/>\nin the jagged distance above the seaside town.<\/p>\n<p>Small wars have been waged<br \/>\nfor this ungoverned territory,<br \/>\nyet no man has ever died<br \/>\non its shores. <\/p>\n<p>Has ever the sun set<br \/>\nits white eye upon<br \/>\nmy milk-flesh?<\/p>\n<p>It hides even from God.<\/p>\n<p>I know the way.<br \/>\nI show it to you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\"><\/p>\n<h6>Leila Chatti<\/h6>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer turns my skin to brown sugar, sweet-dark and speckled. Light runs its mouth across my collarbone and drinks the shadow pooled there. Even my hair changes&#8211; each strand on my thigh a sliver of soft gold. But there are boundaries, parts distinct and separate as countries marked on a map. There&#8211; two islands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"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":[48],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3kL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819"}],"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\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13046,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/13046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}