{"id":12886,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2016-07-23T03:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T09:15:23","slug":"at-your-age-i-wore-a-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12886","title":{"rendered":"At Your Age, I Wore a Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>several sizes too big. It hung on me<br \/>\nlike a mother\u2019s dress. Even now, <\/p>\n<p>as we speak, I am stitching<br \/>\na darkness you\u2019ll need to unravel, <\/p>\n<p>unraveling another you\u2019ll need<br \/>\nto restitch. What can I give you <\/p>\n<p>that you can keep? Once you asked,<br \/>\n<em>Does the sky stop?<\/em> It doesn\u2019t stop, <\/p>\n<p>it just stops being one thing<br \/>\nand starts being another. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we hold hands<br \/>\nand tip our heads way back <\/p>\n<p>so the blue fills our whole field<br \/>\nof vision, so we feel like <\/p>\n<p>we\u2019re in it. We don\u2019t stop,<br \/>\nwe just stop being what we are <\/p>\n<p>and start being what?<br \/>\nWhere? What can I give you <\/p>\n<p>to carry there? These shadows<br \/>\nof leaves\u2014the lace in <em>solace?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>This soft, hand-me-down<br \/>\ndarkness? What can I give you <\/p>\n<p>that will be of use in your next life,<br \/>\nthe one you will live without me? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\"><\/p>\n<h6>Maggie Smith<\/h6>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>several sizes too big. It hung on me like a mother\u2019s dress. Even now, as we speak, I am stitching a darkness you\u2019ll need to unravel, unraveling another you\u2019ll need to restitch. What can I give you that you can keep? Once you asked, Does the sky stop? It doesn\u2019t stop, it just stops being [&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-3lQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886"}],"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=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}