{"id":5075,"date":"2012-04-01T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:28:20","slug":"5075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5075","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let it be too-early light, your first<br \/>\nmemory, the dog lapping from the water bowl.<br \/>\nI eat and make my way<\/p>\n<p>across the gravel path, a handful of stones.<br \/>\nLet it be among these birds<br \/>\nand other birds. She said, <em>The hardest thing <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have done<\/em>, and changed her mind<br \/>\nmore than once. There is no word<br \/>\nfor the way your mother touched you,<\/p>\n<p>you must know&#8211;and four<br \/>\nbrothers somewhere. <em>The hardest thing<\/em>,<br \/>\nand left. You must know that there<\/p>\n<p>were tears, nothing we won\u2019t do\u2014<br \/>\nof that you can be sure. The window looks<br \/>\nupon a field, three horses grazing in the rain.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5139\">Blas Falconer<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it be too-early light, your first memory, the dog lapping from the water bowl. I eat and make my way across the gravel path, a handful of stones. Let it be among these birds and other birds. She said, The hardest thing I have done, and changed her mind more than once. There is [&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\/s6Jypy-5075","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075"}],"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=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10278,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}