{"id":13185,"date":"2016-12-15T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:47:41","slug":"cruelty-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13185","title":{"rendered":"Cruelty-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You summon up the vulgar<br \/>\nluxury it is to be<br \/>\na chicken, dawdling along the fenced-in yard<\/p>\n<p>and shitting willy-nilly everywhere.<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t make it easier<br \/>\nto kill this chicken<\/p>\n<p>but you do it.<br \/>\nYou wrench the head back, slit the jugular,<br \/>\nsaw roughly through the windpipe.<\/p>\n<p>You squat and watch<br \/>\nthe blood drip into the bucket,<br \/>\nthe body shuddering like a preacher <\/p>\n<p>whose tongue got caught<br \/>\nin the electrical socket of God,<br \/>\nthrashing in the kind of ecstasy <\/p>\n<p>that believes the darkness<br \/>\nis just another crease<br \/>\nin a cupped enormous hand<\/p>\n<p>that carries all of us like water<br \/>\nrare and liquid through the dryness.<br \/>\nToday you are that hand.<\/p>\n<p>And you say someone folded love<br \/>\ninto the blade. That the appetite<br \/>\nwhich drags it back and forth<\/p>\n<p>is a sacrament<br \/>\neven this chicken knelt to take.<br \/>\nYou believe that you are owed this.<\/p>\n<p>That salvation can be willed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13165\"><\/p>\n<h6>Conor Bracken<\/h6>\n<p> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You summon up the vulgar luxury it is to be a chicken, dawdling along the fenced-in yard and shitting willy-nilly everywhere. It doesn\u2019t make it easier to kill this chicken but you do it. You wrench the head back, slit the jugular, saw roughly through the windpipe. You squat and watch the blood drip into [&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":[50],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3qF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185"}],"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=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13308,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions\/13308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}