{"id":6380,"date":"2013-04-01T00:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2015-02-12T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:26:18","slug":"on-the-flood-grown-more-perilous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6380","title":{"rendered":"On the Flood, Grown More Perilous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I measure the river<br \/>\nin amperes.<br \/>\nSparks whip<br \/>\nacross the surface<br \/>\nlike live wires.<br \/>\nThe river has swallowed<br \/>\na pylon, and all<br \/>\nthat pylon\u2019s power.<br \/>\nDown in the murk,<br \/>\nthe current shapes<br \/>\nitself into parentheses,<br \/>\nlike a corn maze<br \/>\nmodeled after<br \/>\na magnetic field,<br \/>\niron filings seized<br \/>\nin place. We think<br \/>\nwe want to feel<br \/>\nthe sparks\u2014<br \/>\ndive in and glow.<br \/>\nBut we are<br \/>\nnot conductors,<br \/>\nelectric eels.<br \/>\nDespite our own<br \/>\nsmall currents\u2014<br \/>\nthe brain and nerves<br \/>\nat work\u2014<br \/>\nwe are soft. I drop<br \/>\na galvanometer<br \/>\ninto the water,<br \/>\nand it spins<br \/>\nand spins and spins.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6330\">Brianna Noll<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I measure the river in amperes. Sparks whip across the surface like live wires. The river has swallowed a pylon, and all that pylon\u2019s power. Down in the murk, the current shapes itself into parentheses, like a corn maze modeled after a magnetic field, iron filings seized in place. We think we want to feel [&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-1EU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380"}],"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=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}