{"id":17927,"date":"2022-08-01T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17927"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:05:56","slug":"photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17927","title":{"rendered":"Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A poem by Chiew Ruoh Peng, translated from the Chinese by Yee Heng Yeh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A court historian should have frozen the frame<br \/>\non each moment, then filed it away.<br \/>\nFor the times, our mother, the dowager queen,<br \/>\nhad her hands full with us young princes.<br \/>\nFor the discussions on our grand nation\u2019s affairs<br \/>\ntaking place between ministers and guests.<br \/>\nFor housewarmings, birthdays, storytelling, singing,<br \/>\ndancing, crosstalk routines, sports meets, graduations,<br \/>\nsquares of scenery seen on travels.<br \/>\nFor when one is doing nothing, sometimes:<br \/>\njust a face caught lost in thought.<\/p>\n<p>And if dad is missing in these photos\u2014<br \/>\nall the better to make our imaginations work harder<br \/>\nto bring him back to life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4E9\">Chiew Ruoh Peng &amp; Yee Heng Yeh<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Chiew Ruoh Peng, translated from the Chinese by Yee Heng Yeh &nbsp; A court historian should have frozen the frame on each moment, then filed it away. For the times, our mother, the dowager queen, had her hands full with us young princes. For the discussions on our grand nation\u2019s affairs taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"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":[74],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4F9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927"}],"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\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17957,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions\/17957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}