{"id":15243,"date":"2019-04-01T01:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:05:57","slug":"dear-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15243","title":{"rendered":"Dear Frank,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night was tire-iron. The moon pressed<br \/>\nmy throat like a steel toed boot, its beam<br \/>\nthrough a chink in the rusted tin. It happened<br \/>\nin either shouts or whispers and his teeth<br \/>\nand trimmed nails and his <em>we both did this<\/em>.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not in the business of why. The drugged<br \/>\nafternoon you spent as a child on a teacher\u2019s lap,<br \/>\nthe monk tried on too-old accounts, who wore<br \/>\ngym shorts and shared with me a glass<br \/>\nof his monastery wine. But I know our bodies<br \/>\nare not sacred\u2014that squirrels gnaw<br \/>\non the cow bones littering the slope<br \/>\nbehind the chicken coop where it all happened.<br \/>\nThat once touched you never want to touch<br \/>\nagain, or you want to touch anyone<br \/>\nyou know won\u2019t hurt. Anyway.<br \/>\nThe moon is out for a drink and you are gone<br \/>\nfor good. The living concoct their reasons.<br \/>\nThe night is no less violent for it. So praise<br \/>\nbe to God, or words arranged in pleasant rhythms.<br \/>\nPraise be to the single eyelash that disturbs your sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15227\">Zach Harrod<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night was tire-iron. The moon pressed my throat like a steel toed boot, its beam through a chink in the rusted tin. It happened in either shouts or whispers and his teeth and trimmed nails and his we both did this. I\u2019m not in the business of why. The drugged afternoon you spent as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1704,"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":[58],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3XR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243"}],"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\/1704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15279,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions\/15279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}