{"id":3948,"date":"2011-04-01T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-02-17T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:36:30","slug":"bildungsroman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3948","title":{"rendered":"Bildungsroman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her ripped red frock<br \/>\non the wet lawn, her inside<br \/>\nit. She knew years had passed<br \/>\nsince the woolly caterpillars.<br \/>\nHer mother\u2019s lips still the color<br \/>\nof the yew berries that could not<br \/>\nbe eaten in threes &amp; then there<br \/>\nwas the boy who wanted if only<br \/>\nshe missed with her cherry<br \/>\nbombs. She went to the copse<br \/>\nbehind her house, it had arms.<br \/>\nShe was her dress. And then<br \/>\nthere was the dog &amp; the dog<br \/>\nunderstood. He hated the bow<br \/>\nholding his neck together, he knew<br \/>\nthe clawed halls of her own. So<br \/>\nhe fed her crabapples, mashed<br \/>\nthem soft with his mouth &amp; when<br \/>\nshe could walk again he doctored<br \/>\nher with the undersink chemicals,<br \/>\nnosed the cabinet door open \u2013<br \/>\nshe happily sucked their nozzles,<br \/>\npumped their levers, she gained<br \/>\nstrength, her mouth opened<br \/>\n&amp; closed now, if slowly. He took<br \/>\nher to the party with the polio<br \/>\nchildren, she daintily licked each<br \/>\nof their half-eaten cakes when<br \/>\nproffered by his black paw. Then<br \/>\nher arms! She shoved her stuffed<br \/>\nanimals against the wall<br \/>\n&amp; demanded alibis, the dog said<br \/>\n<em> for their own sakes<\/em>, he slammed<br \/>\nhis head\u2019s black gavel against hers<br \/>\n&amp; declared everyone innocent<br \/>\nof every crime. She was overcome.<br \/>\nThe dog crawled under the porch<br \/>\n&amp; she dragged her small body<br \/>\nalong. She mulched herself in<br \/>\nwith the dog gone flimsy &amp; wet,<br \/>\nshe ate from his warm belly to help<br \/>\nwith the growing. She grew.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3425\">Brittany Cavallaro<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her ripped red frock on the wet lawn, her inside it. She knew years had passed since the woolly caterpillars. Her mother\u2019s lips still the color of the yew berries that could not be eaten in threes &amp; then there was the boy who wanted if only she missed with her cherry bombs. She went [&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-11G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948"}],"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=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}