{"id":12849,"date":"2016-08-01T00:09:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2016-07-31T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T03:59:46","slug":"behind-the-story-being-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12849","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Story Being Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>quick glance down<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>through hackberries <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________<\/span>reveals between<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>the ampersands of limbs<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________<\/span>and cross-hatched, indecisive trunks<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>a green I\u2019d easily miss if not for how its<\/p>\n<p>presence<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>seems ordained,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>a template back behind <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________<\/span>the world that I can see or know.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>The same is true in conversation:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________<\/span>the words&#8211;misshapen, tangled&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>and then the sun-struck wordlessness beyond.<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>think I hear some days<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>the intercessions<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________<\/span>made on our behalf,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>as numerous as dandelion stems<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________<\/span>the earth itself cannot keep track of,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>seed heads given to the wind.  What<\/p>\n<p>can<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>each of us do<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>but listen,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________<\/span>allow the other\u2019s voice&#8211;na\u00efve,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>defenseless&#8211;a space<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________<\/span>so that behind the story <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>being told of helping turtles cross the road, one can<\/p>\n<p>feel<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>even the ditch grass brush along<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>one of the side-turned faces<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________<\/span>bound for wherever turtles go,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>aloof on four tentative legs<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________<\/span>on an earth so plentiful <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>it only makes sense to trust what\u2019s out ahead.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\"><\/p>\n<h6>Jeff Hardin<\/h6>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A _____quick glance down _________________through hackberries ___________reveals between _________________the ampersands of limbs _______________________and cross-hatched, indecisive trunks _____a green I\u2019d easily miss if not for how its presence _____seems ordained, _________________a template back behind ___________the world that I can see or know. _________________The same is true in conversation: _______________________the words&#8211;misshapen, tangled&#8211; _____and then the sun-struck wordlessness [&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-3lf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849"}],"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=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}