{"id":5056,"date":"2012-04-01T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2015-03-25T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T02:07:59","slug":"blue-talk-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5056","title":{"rendered":"Blue Talk Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. The Boston Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve ebbed up human<br \/>\nbarely, my nerve-tick<br \/>\nirony salting the beach<br \/>\nwhite as the bones<br \/>\nin Ezekiel&#8217;s valley<br \/>\nof mad resurrections.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come from the dark<br \/>\nforecastle of the self,<br \/>\na keel-hauled member<br \/>\nof Ahab&#8217;s crew, elected<br \/>\nCalvinist to love<br \/>\nsome Shaker beauty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The Kansas City Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After booze and weed<br \/>\nand the slow, big muddy<br \/>\nof late night hopes,<br \/>\nit all gets personal,<br \/>\nbaby, whether or not<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve been saved.<\/p>\n<p>In pain\u2019s stark spot<br \/>\nI blow a toy<br \/>\ncopy of Bird\u2019s alto,<br \/>\npissing off friends<br \/>\nwith rank repetition<br \/>\nand bad self-cutting,<\/p>\n<p>what they\u2019ll do<br \/>\nthemselves, LPs<br \/>\non full automatic,<br \/>\nlike in Paris, man,<br \/>\nblue notes aplenty<br \/>\nwith small resolution.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5139\">William Ford<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Boston Blues I&#8217;ve ebbed up human barely, my nerve-tick irony salting the beach white as the bones in Ezekiel&#8217;s valley of mad resurrections. I&#8217;ve come from the dark forecastle of the self, a keel-hauled member of Ahab&#8217;s crew, elected Calvinist to love some Shaker beauty. 2. The Kansas City Blues After booze and [&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":[10],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1jy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056"}],"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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}