{"id":17588,"date":"2022-04-01T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:06:29","slug":"all-the-people-who-died-and-their-hopes-that-died-with-them-and-my-sad-ass-dangly-silver-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17588","title":{"rendered":"All the People Who Died and Their Hopes That Died with Them and My Sad-Ass Dangly Silver Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six of my people in ten days, so I order six of the fifty-nine<br \/>\npacks of dangly silver earrings and make caprese salad from<\/p>\n<p>thinly-sliced watermelon instead of tomato. No one can tell<br \/>\nme what death is because in death\u2019s mansion the lights are off,<\/p>\n<p>and we can\u2019t read the manual in the dark. Inside the second-floor<br \/>\nbathroom, now, a small boy sits, depressing as a public restroom<\/p>\n<p>urinal. I hand him a clock and a body piercing gun. He hands me<br \/>\na mirror, which I use to apply foundation, contour, and concealer<\/p>\n<p>to all the ill-digested news visiting my face as blemishes. Peace is on<br \/>\na far shelf. The more earrings I have, the more I can afford to lose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4A7\">Melissa Studdard<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six of my people in ten days, so I order six of the fifty-nine packs of dangly silver earrings and make caprese salad from thinly-sliced watermelon instead of tomato. No one can tell me what death is because in death\u2019s mansion the lights are off, and we can\u2019t read the manual in the dark. Inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2247,"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":[71],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4zG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588"}],"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\/2247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17629,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions\/17629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}