{"id":17592,"date":"2022-04-01T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:05:23","slug":"fly-flying-into-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17592","title":{"rendered":"Fly Flying into a Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wharfage, no<br \/>\nsoft edges, no more<br \/>\nice cubes or chances<br \/>\nto be normal, nothing<br \/>\nleft of the landscape<br \/>\nthat\u2019s photographable,<br \/>\nno imaginary friends<br \/>\nseated at the dining<br \/>\nroom table<br \/>\nand certainly no soup there,<br \/>\nno fish in the river,<br \/>\nno miracles arriving<br \/>\nin the form of phone calls,<br \/>\nno signs warning children<br \/>\nof the dangers of falling<br \/>\nfrom windows,<br \/>\nno muscular sailors<br \/>\nwho happen to be passing by<br \/>\nto catch the children as they fall,<br \/>\nno sailors at all,<br \/>\nno boats or water,<br \/>\nno gum wrappers left<br \/>\nto fold into smaller<br \/>\nand denser arrangements,<br \/>\nno faded bronze plaques<br \/>\ninscribed with history lessons,<br \/>\nno history, no ability<br \/>\nto silence the advertisements.<br \/>\nAre there some places<br \/>\nwhere love simply<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t grow as fast<br \/>\nas it decays? And by places<br \/>\nI mean people. And<br \/>\nwhen you fall<br \/>\nasleep is when<br \/>\nI need you<br \/>\nmost desperately, because<br \/>\nwithout your eyes on it this<br \/>\nwhole town disappears.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4A7\">Mikko Harvey<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wharfage, no soft edges, no more ice cubes or chances to be normal, nothing left of the landscape that\u2019s photographable, no imaginary friends seated at the dining room table and certainly no soup there, no fish in the river, no miracles arriving in the form of phone calls, no signs warning children of the [&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-4zK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592"}],"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=17592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17627,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions\/17627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}