{"id":12872,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12872"},"modified":"2016-07-31T21:52:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T03:52:38","slug":"white-boy-time-machine-override","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12872","title":{"rendered":"White Boy Time Machine: Override"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter where we go, there\u2019s a history<br \/>\nof white men describing a landscape  <\/p>\n<p>so they can claim it. I look out the window<br \/>\n&amp; I don\u2019t see a sunset, I see a man\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>pink tongue razing the horizon.<br \/>\nI once heard a man describe the village<\/p>\n<p> in Vietnam where my family comes from.<br \/>\nIt was beautiful<\/p>\n<p>a poem I would gift my mother<br \/>\nbut somewhere in the pastoral I am reminded <\/p>\n<p>a child (recently) was blown apart<br \/>\nafter stepping on a mine, a bulb, I guess<\/p>\n<p>blooming forty years later\u2014<br \/>\nmaybe it was how the poet said <em>dirt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>or maybe it was how he used fire<br \/>\nto describe the trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\"><\/p>\n<h6>Hieu Minh Nguyen<\/h6>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter where we go, there\u2019s a history of white men describing a landscape so they can claim it. I look out the window &amp; I don\u2019t see a sunset, I see a man\u2019s pink tongue razing the horizon. I once heard a man describe the village in Vietnam where my family comes from. It [&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-3lC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872"}],"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=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13041,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions\/13041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}