{"id":6376,"date":"2013-04-01T00:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2015-02-12T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:24:15","slug":"bystanders-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6376","title":{"rendered":"Bystander&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a witness to the wars,<br \/>\na witness to the witnesses of wars,<br \/>\na second cousin twice removed \u2013<br \/>\nit does not mean I am not moved.<\/p>\n<p>A mother moves from porch to kitchen, then<br \/>\nto attic. She can move in place like static.<br \/>\nChildren like to ask, <em>why<\/em>,<br \/>\nthen <em>why<\/em> again. I remember when my son,<\/p>\n<p>so young, questioned every noun.<br \/>\n<em> What\u2019s that?<\/em> Interrogating me, the witness.<br \/>\n<em> What\u2019s this?<\/em> Bulldozer, dirt, fire engine, sky.<br \/>\nNoun equates to answer, followed by<\/p>\n<p>another question <em>Why? Why? Why truck?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Why sky?<\/em> Because it\u2019s blue. An answer<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s true. The question<br \/>\nis the thing that moves. And all the damned and dead \u2013<\/p>\n<p>they move me, too.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6330\">Katy Miller<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a witness to the wars, a witness to the witnesses of wars, a second cousin twice removed \u2013 it does not mean I am not moved. A mother moves from porch to kitchen, then to attic. She can move in place like static. Children like to ask, why, then why again. I remember [&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":[11],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1EQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376"}],"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=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10105,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/10105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}