{"id":4450,"date":"2011-08-01T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:59:07","slug":"getting-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4450","title":{"rendered":"Getting It Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s look at it this way:<br \/>\nwe are shepherds on the hillside.<br \/>\nMaybe we are at leisure with our crooks<br \/>\nrested at our feet, and finger perhaps a flute<br \/>\nor a scrap of paper, forgetting the sounds<br \/>\nof cities, pumping engines, chains clanking,<br \/>\ncrane hydraulics extending wrought hooks.<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t remember the color of sirens<br \/>\nor the sound of police lights, and attempts<br \/>\nto recall bring more clover on the wind,<br \/>\nsucculents flowering on the hillside just up<br \/>\nthe path from the well.  Soon, it will be time<br \/>\nto lower the bucket, to think towards<br \/>\ntending the fire.  While the sheep stir<br \/>\nin the pen, we\u2019ll stir the coals with iron.<br \/>\nIn a timid kindling glow, a lamb crying softly<br \/>\nthrough one window, one of us will look<br \/>\nto the other and say, We\u2019ve been going<br \/>\nabout this gig all wrong.  If we castrate a rat,<br \/>\nand tie a bell around its neck, sheep will follow it.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4418\">Andrew Najberg<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s look at it this way: we are shepherds on the hillside. Maybe we are at leisure with our crooks rested at our feet, and finger perhaps a flute or a scrap of paper, forgetting the sounds of cities, pumping engines, chains clanking, crane hydraulics extending wrought hooks. We don\u2019t remember the color of sirens [&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-19M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450"}],"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=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10296,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}