{"id":6664,"date":"2013-08-01T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2015-02-12T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:46:32","slug":"locusts-and-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6664","title":{"rendered":"Locusts and Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The doctor says my sister tears her skin<br \/>\nbecause she sees bugs. Her nails shovel<br \/>\nthrough her body until it spurts blossoms.<br \/>\nAlong the gutter\u2019s underbelly, I spot<br \/>\nthe transparent loaf of a shell split-open.<br \/>\nI climb a ladder, pluck its molt off the house.<br \/>\nSomewhere this released spirit crows<br \/>\nmysteries\u2014sacred through its cedar throat.<br \/>\nI marvel at glimmering thorax, its distant voice.<br \/>\nShe sits in a cold room, prying herself open.<br \/>\nIn the kitchen, I turn off light, burn candles,<br \/>\nanoint with honey, and tongue the heavy gem.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6632\">Jesse Breite<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctor says my sister tears her skin because she sees bugs. Her nails shovel through her body until it spurts blossoms. Along the gutter\u2019s underbelly, I spot the transparent loaf of a shell split-open. I climb a ladder, pluck its molt off the house. Somewhere this released spirit crows mysteries\u2014sacred through its cedar throat. [&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":[16],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664"}],"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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10092,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}