{"id":4382,"date":"2011-08-01T00:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T05:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:07:43","slug":"robert-frost-in-the-slaughter-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4382","title":{"rendered":"Robert Frost in the Slaughter House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flies freeze into puddles<br \/>\nBeneath the dripping meat hooks<br \/>\nAs we maze the swinging,<br \/>\nSkinned bodies to the backroom<br \/>\nAdjacent the loading docks:<br \/>\nA group of four or five men\u2014<br \/>\nDay laborers and a driver\u2014<br \/>\nFunnel a steer from a wooden cart<br \/>\nInto the \u201cjaws of death.\u201d<br \/>\nHind legs quickly roped,<br \/>\nThe beast is pulleyed into the air,<br \/>\nWhere they cut its throat<br \/>\nAnd drain the warm blood<br \/>\nInto a pail held by a young boy,<br \/>\nAlmost my age, dancing<br \/>\nPerilously beneath.<br \/>\nAll afternoon Father drinks<br \/>\nCup after cup to cure the sickness<br \/>\nThat has settled in his lungs,<br \/>\nAnd by the time we squint out<br \/>\nInto the sun, my jaw<br \/>\nIs numb\u2014though the fog<br \/>\nHas lifted one more day<br \/>\nOff the distant hills<br \/>\nOf Sausalito and Marin.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4418\">Craig Blais<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flies freeze into puddles Beneath the dripping meat hooks As we maze the swinging, Skinned bodies to the backroom Adjacent the loading docks: A group of four or five men\u2014 Day laborers and a driver\u2014 Funnel a steer from a wooden cart Into the \u201cjaws of death.\u201d Hind legs quickly roped, The beast is pulleyed [&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":[14],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-18G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382"}],"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=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}