{"id":15956,"date":"2020-04-01T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2020-04-01T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T06:29:10","slug":"devil-could-have-sworn-he-heard-the-holy-father-say-heaven-help-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15956","title":{"rendered":"Devil could have sworn he heard the holy father say heaven help me"},"content":{"rendered":"

when the young child showed him the kitten whose head\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

her friends had opened with a trowel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How was he supposed to go on proclaiming a life free from attachment\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

or whatever when this simple lack of symmetry so immediately undid him\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

was his first thought, his second thought a blanketing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of thanks when the cat raised its head\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and said <\/span>I think we all can agree the saddest part of this entire dilemma\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

is how even if you care your care will come to naught<\/span><\/i>. The girl\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

dropped it like that, let the holy father go back\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to doing nothing with the slow, oblique courtesy the villagers long ago\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

agreed it would be misfortune to disrupt; she\u2019d received from this the necessary\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

lesson in withholding, so walked home hoping to explain her tardiness\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

with a story about nothing but some clouds, how before they wandered down the day\u2019s
\niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii<\/span>last light\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

they looked like two cupped hands offering their water to the closest open mouth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CHARLIE CLARK<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when the young child showed him the kitten whose head\u00a0 her friends had opened with a trowel.\u00a0 How was he supposed to go on proclaiming a life free from attachment\u00a0 or whatever when this simple lack of symmetry so immediately undid him\u00a0 was his first thought, his second thought a blanketing\u00a0 of thanks when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"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":[62],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-49m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956"}],"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\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16097,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions\/16097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}