{"id":6912,"date":"2013-08-01T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2015-02-12T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:32:11","slug":"they-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6912","title":{"rendered":"They Do This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spring, the days thin into membrane, the air escaping into somewhere<br \/>\njust beyond reach or taste and everything is in chaos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hostas grow rapidly Their fronds unravel<br \/>\nlike tongues under the stillborn sun. Moles upset<br \/>\nthe landscape in their search for grubs<br \/>\nand the lake winks with pollen and cottonseed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Male birds begin to fly into the front windows and they accumulate:<br \/>\na few at first, then a pile of broken bones outside the door, pulling from me<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a vague love. The thumps on the glass<br \/>\n\tare suicidally delicate and pumped full.<br \/>\n\tThey do this not because they want to come<br \/>\n        indoors nor because the glass is too clean:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>they do this because it is spring and their reflection in the glass<br \/>\nis another male looking for the same, so they<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>crash into something that looks<br \/>\ntoo familiar, too like themselves,<br \/>\nthinking it a threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6632\">Kimberly Bruss<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spring, the days thin into membrane, the air escaping into somewhere just beyond reach or taste and everything is in chaos: The hostas grow rapidly Their fronds unravel like tongues under the stillborn sun. Moles upset the landscape in their search for grubs and the lake winks with pollen and cottonseed. Male birds begin [&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-1Nu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912"}],"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=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10086,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}