{"id":3313,"date":"2010-12-01T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:35:17","slug":"apology-with-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3313","title":{"rendered":"Apology with Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind that<br \/>\nthe frogs are singing and<br \/>\nthey sing like a swing-set.<br \/>\nWhen the third eye opens,<br \/>\nit hurts. We were assigned<br \/>\nthis ache and an axe on<br \/>\nthe day of our birth.<br \/>\nA rusty length of days<br \/>\nto break apart. It is easier<br \/>\nto shut one eye than to<br \/>\nsee your god disfigured,<br \/>\ndone in, his nose running<br \/>\ngloss down his holy<br \/>\nface. Our father said stop<br \/>\nhitting yourself. And we tried<br \/>\nbut we could not. His hand<br \/>\nwas everywhere. We believe in<br \/>\nnothing but the clobbered.<br \/>\nThe box of candy birds on<br \/>\nthe table is a petrified sugar<br \/>\npsalm. Gash, gash. A human<br \/>\nheart is hard. Gash. It is also<br \/>\nspinning. Barstool eternal;<br \/>\ncrazed seat; our own, saved.<br \/>\nWhat a word, he said.<br \/>\nPutting a finger to his hinges.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/2540\">Bridget Talone<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind that the frogs are singing and they sing like a swing-set. When the third eye opens, it hurts. We were assigned this ache and an axe on the day of our birth. A rusty length of days to break apart. It is easier to shut one eye than to see your god disfigured, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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":[3],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-Rr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}