{"id":6684,"date":"2013-08-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:30:38","slug":"the-sun-may-eventually-engulf-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6684","title":{"rendered":"The Sun May Eventually Engulf the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask me how I first learned that a shroud has no pockets. It was<br \/>\none of those green-stained late afternoons when geologists alight<br \/>\non the hill with their mouths gaping like little tunnels,<\/p>\n<p>watching the grass dissolve into the sky. The unlit star<br \/>\nto my right was scratching itself before the world could glimpse<br \/>\nits fingers. Every rock sung: not long and low, not brassy and<\/p>\n<p>shameless but mid-voice, a sturdy tune. Together, a band<br \/>\nof foxes was unemotionally cracking the skull of the marsh. Oh,<br \/>\nthe shuddering twigs. Oh, the glimmer of end. Oh, how <\/p>\n<p>you swiveled in my direction and remarked that someday we<br \/>\nwould be infirm enough to forget the old worlds, the dead ones\u2014<br \/>\na voracious starburst grinning in the palm of your hand.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6632\">Suzanne Marie Hopcroft<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask me how I first learned that a shroud has no pockets. It was one of those green-stained late afternoons when geologists alight on the hill with their mouths gaping like little tunnels, watching the grass dissolve into the sky. The unlit star to my right was scratching itself before the world could glimpse its [&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-1JO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684"}],"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=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10082,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}