{"id":18441,"date":"2023-04-20T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18441"},"modified":"2023-04-20T02:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:47:40","slug":"any-moonwalker-can-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18441","title":{"rendered":"Any Moonwalker Can Tell You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no sound on the moon. Too little atmosphere and yet they say it rung<br \/>\nlike a bell when they crashed the lunar module into it (on purpose)\u2014the way<br \/>\nsome angry kid might wreck a car he\u2019s hotwired, knowing he can\u2019t keep it,<br \/>\nknowing there would be a reckoning. So, having torn up the grass of every field<br \/>\nin town, and driven wild down every private road, the radio turned all the way<br \/>\nup, windows wide open, he takes it to it the top of a hill, throws it into neutral, then<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">aaaaa<\/span>hops out,<br \/>\nrunning. I have had my bell rung too many times to count, only to be sent<br \/>\nback into the game, across the brittle grass of the high-school football field,<br \/>\nhaving guessed right at the number of fingers, the day, where I was and what<br \/>\nI was doing. (what was I doing?) First, I should say, how much we didn\u2019t know\u2014<br \/>\nthat this was normal. And you can\u2019t really blame the coach (who was, more<br \/>\noften than not, a father ) for doing what coaches, what fathers do, teaching<br \/>\na boy to get back up off the ground, looking into eyes that were once his own,<br \/>\ntelling himself there is no damage done because there was no damage done<br \/>\nto him. So get back out there, son. Not knowing or admitting if ever how long<br \/>\nfar off the reckoning would come. And it always comes. It\u2019s enough to make you<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">aaaaa<\/span>scream<br \/>\nyour lungs out only no one can hear you above the roaring the ringing,<br \/>\nconcussions and repercussions all around. Shuddering in place.<br \/>\nWhen the module struck, it hit with the force of a ton of TNT, the reactions,<br \/>\nseismic, and the moon vibrated for over an hour\u2014so long, some wondered<br \/>\nif it might be hollow. When you strike a thing that hard there is always<br \/>\na consequence, even if you can\u2019t hear it, even if there is no bruise, something<br \/>\nthat can be measured not just by the damage done but its reverberations singing<br \/>\nback through space a quavering note which goes on and on long after everything<br \/>\nbeneath the surface settles to new places though it looks the same with the same<br \/>\nsmooth blank look on so many smooth blank faces, long after the impact has come<br \/>\nand gone long after the father forgets the name of the son and we\u2019ve left so many<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">aaaaa<\/span>footprints like scars upon the surface of the moon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Ne\">Joel Peckham JR<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no sound on the moon. Too little atmosphere and yet they say it rung like a bell when they crashed the lunar module into it (on purpose)\u2014the way some angry kid might wreck a car he\u2019s hotwired, knowing he can\u2019t keep it, knowing there would be a reckoning. So, having torn up 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":[76],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Nr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18441"}],"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=18441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18612,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18441\/revisions\/18612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}