{"id":7579,"date":"2013-12-01T01:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2015-02-12T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:15:21","slug":"in-the-hot-air-balloon-shelley-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7579","title":{"rendered":"In the Hot-Air Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferruginous means red and tastes<br \/>\nlike cinnamon. We draw <\/p>\n<p>maps with spices. I trace<br \/>\na border along your jaw<\/p>\n<p>with salt\u2019s roughness.<br \/>\nI see your eyes <\/p>\n<p>as a divine country<br \/>\nof tides. My spine<\/p>\n<p>is alert when the wind casts<br \/>\nme in waves, as an illusion<\/p>\n<p>of a winged thing<br \/>\nwhen all I want is <\/p>\n<p>collision. Let us keep<br \/>\nour gravity, this perpetual<\/p>\n<p>gasp and rise, lit<br \/>\nby the flame. Tell me<\/p>\n<p>the ways north and south,<br \/>\ntell me what is <\/p>\n<p>beyond this reverberation.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll never<\/p>\n<p>stop singing\u2014<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7369\">Shelley Wong<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferruginous means red and tastes like cinnamon. We draw maps with spices. I trace a border along your jaw with salt\u2019s roughness. I see your eyes as a divine country of tides. My spine is alert when the wind casts me in waves, as an illusion of a winged thing when all I want is [&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":[6],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1Yf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579"}],"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=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}