{"id":5807,"date":"2012-12-01T00:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2015-02-15T19:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:20:56","slug":"parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5807","title":{"rendered":"Parable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Sisyphus held onto his desires<br \/>\nfor crescents of beach, cheeks of wild fig, his wife\u2019s small body\u2014<br \/>\nuntil he was condemned to hell<br \/>\nwhere his rock was readied<br \/>\nto become the object of his final Passion,<\/p>\n<p>so this solitary grandmother holds onto hers,<br \/>\nwhile perched hunchbacked, wobbling on<br \/>\nthe lowest stair in the rockery, to plant<br \/>\nwith earth-clotted fingers digging deep<br \/>\nbetween wedges of stone<br \/>\nthe seeds of Jacob\u2019s Ladder after rain, <\/p>\n<p>and rests, licking her bloody knuckles<br \/>\nfrom time to time,<br \/>\nstill unconscious of the ravens, who,<br \/>\nen route, exhausted, pause then circle high above,<br \/>\nregarding the grey alpine laborer at the foot<br \/>\nof the shady precipice.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6046\">Rosanna Oh<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Sisyphus held onto his desires for crescents of beach, cheeks of wild fig, his wife\u2019s small body\u2014 until he was condemned to hell where his rock was readied to become the object of his final Passion, so this solitary grandmother holds onto hers, while perched hunchbacked, wobbling on the lowest stair in the [&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":[5],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-parable","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807"}],"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=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10242,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}