{"id":5120,"date":"2012-04-01T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2015-02-16T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:25:10","slug":"gaunt-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5120","title":{"rendered":"Gaunt Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This act of remembering is my greatest infidelity.<br \/>\nIt steals back the length of other days. Long drift-away<\/p>\n<p>from loved ones washing plates, checking<br \/>\nthe phone\u2019s messages. Sons feeding chickens,<\/p>\n<p>playing on swings outside. They carry forward,<br \/>\nall vitality and desire.<\/p>\n<p>For me, grief becomes a measure of time,<br \/>\nan oil slick across these calm days.<\/p>\n<p>I should stretch myself from the orchard ladder,<br \/>\nknick my hands in the branches, then pulp, then press the cider.<\/p>\n<p>But memory is such an elegant lure\u2014the moon\u2019s hook<br \/>\nstopped in the river.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5139\">Todd Fredson<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This act of remembering is my greatest infidelity. It steals back the length of other days. Long drift-away from loved ones washing plates, checking the phone\u2019s messages. Sons feeding chickens, playing on swings outside. They carry forward, all vitality and desire. For me, grief becomes a measure of time, an oil slick across these calm [&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-1kA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120"}],"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=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}