{"id":3711,"date":"2011-04-01T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2015-02-17T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:34:53","slug":"the-barbecued-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3711","title":{"rendered":"The Barbecued Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A splatter of scars and volcanic splotches<br \/>\nsprays like drops of scorched milk down the Pompeii<\/p>\n<p>of my cheeks, from where the orange leapt<\/p>\n<p>through the hole in the windshield and spread<br \/>\nlike Lucifer\u2019s skin cream. Days later and doctors<\/p>\n<p>compact a chin from slices of my gut, twine<\/p>\n<p>and dye ruby lips from forearm slivers and <em>viola<\/em>:<br \/>\na face. I dream my parents are part snake<\/p>\n<p>so I might wriggle free from this charred translucence.<\/p>\n<p>I have nightmares of a crowded lunchtime street, a gust<br \/>\nof wind lifting my new face away, like a silk tissue,<\/p>\n<p>my hand reaching up, people gawking, again, at me,<\/p>\n<p>the monster, hooks dangling from my scalp, arteries<br \/>\nflailing like tassels. <em>I am the barbecued man, and I am here <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>to cook you alive. I will hold you to the lit coals <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>that are my eyes and hurl your prayers into the furnace <\/em><br \/>\n<em>of my mouth, even the air escaping your lungs in soggy clumps.<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3425\">Jeffrey McDaniel<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A splatter of scars and volcanic splotches sprays like drops of scorched milk down the Pompeii of my cheeks, from where the orange leapt through the hole in the windshield and spread like Lucifer\u2019s skin cream. Days later and doctors compact a chin from slices of my gut, twine and dye ruby lips from forearm [&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":[9],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-XR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711"}],"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=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10330,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}