{"id":18479,"date":"2023-04-20T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18479"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:06:45","slug":"archival-footage-my-father-learns-to-edit-on-a-moviola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18479","title":{"rendered":"Archival Footage: My Father Learns to Edit on a Moviola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A daughter holds your shirt pocket<br \/>\nand you tuck her in the seams<\/p>\n<p>to keep her small<br \/>\nnight worries at bay. Sing<\/p>\n<p>a child to sleep like they do in Hollywood<br \/>\nor heaven. <em>YOUR NAME<\/em> in lights, ether,<\/p>\n<p>neon you. Only you can\u2019t carry<br \/>\nworries or tunes. On earth, supposedly,<\/p>\n<p>they roll credits<br \/>\nwhere credit is due. Is this<\/p>\n<p>what you wanted? To hold a star<br \/>\nin both hands at once? To leave<\/p>\n<p>one hallway for another?<br \/>\nPlace the daughter<\/p>\n<p>into your shirt pocket, a mint from post-<br \/>\nproduction. An unopened life<\/p>\n<p>saver, saved<br \/>\nshrink-wrapped, fathered. You splice<\/p>\n<p>another frame in which a boy<br \/>\nis given two pistols<\/p>\n<p>for the picture. New<br \/>\nJersey cowboy. There is dust<\/p>\n<p>on the memory, the negative<br \/>\ndeveloped with fingerprints. Exposed, it dances<\/p>\n<p>out of step. The boy falls, protecting<br \/>\nhis fists, your fists, empty,<\/p>\n<p>full of projection,<br \/>\nworried stars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Ne\"> Amanda Maret Scharf<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A daughter holds your shirt pocket and you tuck her in the seams to keep her small night worries at bay. Sing a child to sleep like they do in Hollywood or heaven. YOUR NAME in lights, ether, neon you. Only you can\u2019t carry worries or tunes. On earth, supposedly, they roll credits where credit [&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-4O3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479"}],"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=18479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18646,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions\/18646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}