{"id":7945,"date":"2014-04-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2015-02-14T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:13:41","slug":"fast-on-the-tenth-day-of-tishrei-julia-dasbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7945","title":{"rendered":"Fast on the Tenth Day of Tishrei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In truth, she didn\u2019t starve<br \/>\nto talk to God \u2013  this was ritual,<br \/>\nhers. Only today, she wouldn\u2019t keep<br \/>\nher customs secret as on so many<br \/>\nother days: she dug her finger down<br \/>\nbetween her ribcage, sucked in<br \/>\nhard, measured just how far<br \/>\nit sunk, how far it fell and faded<br \/>\nat the start.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10 hours in<br \/>\nshe\u2019d watch it vanish past her knuckle,<br \/>\nat 15 she\u2019d make a fist,<br \/>\nat 24 she could press so deep<br \/>\nyou\u2019d only see her wrist.<br \/>\nShe\u2019d practiced this:<br \/>\nuntil routine, tradition, longing<br \/>\nbrought her here.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One handed, she imitated prayer \u2013<br \/>\nstaring out the window: a solitary weeping<br \/>\npear tree there unloosening<br \/>\nits branched embroidery<br \/>\nover the threadbare yard \u2013 the godliness<br \/>\nof seeing for the first time<br \/>\na woman let down her long hair<br \/>\nonto the curve of a naked spine, or feeling<br \/>\nher own body give way, become more hers<br \/>\nwhen she is less herself, when she is caving in<br \/>\nto fill her stomach faith-full, to gain control<br \/>\nover each vertebra, to make them rise<br \/>\nas if sprouting wings, beating hard<br \/>\nagainst the 25th hour.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7911\">Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In truth, she didn\u2019t starve to talk to God \u2013 this was ritual, hers. Only today, she wouldn\u2019t keep her customs secret as on so many other days: she dug her finger down between her ribcage, sucked in hard, measured just how far it sunk, how far it fell and faded at the start. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10 [&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":[12],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-249","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945"}],"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=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}