{"id":14379,"date":"2018-03-27T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:25:38","slug":"dear-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14379","title":{"rendered":"Dear Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span><em>after Cassini<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am comforted to know<br \/>\nthat no one really really knows<br \/>\nwhether Saturn\u2019s core is solid gas<br \/>\nliquid plasma or something<br \/>\nelse altogether. Dear computer<br \/>\nI always figured we were guessing.<br \/>\nI figured there were two ways<br \/>\nto know: to eliminate the possible<br \/>\nand to imagine it. What certainty<br \/>\ndevelops when you try to describe<br \/>\nwhat you cannot see<br \/>\nin the spectrometer readouts.<br \/>\nThis blank it might be methane.<br \/>\nThis gap might be a moon in the rings.<br \/>\nThat ring of space between rings of substance is a finger wake<br \/>\nin the surface of lake water.<br \/>\nDear computer. Tell me what you see<br \/>\nor what you sense. Or what sense<br \/>\nyou develop<br \/>\nof Saturn in that farlight. In the dim<br \/>\nsunslant across the equator of a planet we know<br \/>\nwould float<br \/>\nin a bathtub if a bathtub<br \/>\nDear computer<br \/>\ndo you love it. Are you silent<br \/>\nis the planet must you<br \/>\npress your ear to the surface to feel<br \/>\nfrequencies thrum near-space songs when you touch the planet must the planet<br \/>\npress its oblong cheek to yours to hear what I imagine<br \/>\na whirring<br \/>\nfull of purpose full of watching full of beep boop Dear computer. Can you touch<br \/>\nthe air around you. Dear computer<br \/>\ncan you scoop it like a melon ball<br \/>\ncan you scoop it like milk<br \/>\ncan you feel the singing or do you hear the singing<br \/>\nas you dive at first then sink. Dear computer. What question<br \/>\nturns our clockwork drives the deepcode<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14282\">Emma Catherine Perry<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>________after Cassini I am comforted to know that no one really really knows whether Saturn\u2019s core is solid gas liquid plasma or something else altogether. Dear computer I always figured we were guessing. I figured there were two ways to know: to eliminate the possible and to imagine it. What certainty develops when you try [&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":[56],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3JV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379"}],"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=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14380,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions\/14380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}