{"id":18215,"date":"2022-12-04T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18215"},"modified":"2022-12-04T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T01:03:06","slug":"lets-pause-the-music-for-a-little-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18215","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Pause the Music for a Little While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A poem by Aya Nabih and translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The postman will keep delivering empty envelopes<br \/>\nAs long as his feet insist on taking routes<br \/>\nSabotaged by letter bandits.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for us, when he does select a safer route,<br \/>\nThe hands will have trembled as they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep ignoring the street signs,<br \/>\nBecause they are quicksand, pulling<br \/>\nAnd shoving towards oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>We deafen our ears to the music;<br \/>\nIt penetrates them all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Each of us will keep foraging for salvation<br \/>\nAs the other steers clear,<br \/>\nafraid to stall his own expedition<\/p>\n<p>Until the void devours one of us.<br \/>\nAll he can do is turn off the music,<br \/>\nTo prevent the documentation of loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18159\">Aya Nabih &amp; Sara Elkamel<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Aya Nabih and translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel The postman will keep delivering empty envelopes As long as his feet insist on taking routes Sabotaged by letter bandits. Unfortunately for us, when he does select a safer route, The hands will have trembled as they wrote. We will keep ignoring the [&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":[75],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4JN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215"}],"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=18215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18216,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions\/18216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}