{"id":4893,"date":"2011-12-01T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:10:12","slug":"for-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4893","title":{"rendered":"For My Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <em>brother<\/em> in another poem<br \/>\nand immediately think of him:<br \/>\nwild, contrary,<br \/>\nsecretly caring deeply,<br \/>\nhandsome, discreet as a stone<br \/>\nwith our secrets,<br \/>\nbraver than me.<br \/>\nAnd so I think,<br \/>\nshould he not have been<br \/>\nthe older brother?<\/p>\n<p>Would, then, the things that happened<br \/>\nnot have happened<br \/>\nif he\u2019d been the older,<br \/>\nbecause some warning<br \/>\nwould have sounded<br \/>\nwhen he met the abuser?<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe, in part, he is these things<br \/>\nbecause I was the sandbags<br \/>\nso that the breach wouldn\u2019t happen<br \/>\nfurther in, further on down the line.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4752\">David McLoghlin<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read brother in another poem and immediately think of him: wild, contrary, secretly caring deeply, handsome, discreet as a stone with our secrets, braver than me. And so I think, should he not have been the older brother? Would, then, the things that happened not have happened if he\u2019d been the older, because some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1gV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893"}],"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=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10284,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}