{"id":8420,"date":"2014-08-01T22:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:50:49","slug":"considering-harper-lee-during-sunday-mowing-john-davis-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8420","title":{"rendered":"Considering Harper Lee during Sunday Mowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Aunt Alexandra composed herself for a two-hour nap and dared us<br \/>\nto make any noise in the yard, the neighborhood was resting.<br \/>\n&#8212; To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 15<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Would you judge me? Begrudge me this one small chore?<br \/>\nI too grew up in a South where Sunday meant fake peace<br \/>\nand quiet. Only heathens would crank their Snappers,<br \/>\nbut today, the nettles reach too high out front. The ox is in the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>Doubtless Aunt Alexandra would have scowled<br \/>\nat the growl of this sin-red machine, reaping its path<br \/>\ntoward Gomorrah. I\u2019m sorry, Maycomb, but the unpleasant<br \/>\nhas to be done. Walk around in my skin, its circular whorls.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize my way back to the tool shed,<br \/>\na clean plain of green behind me. Purity-making<br \/>\ncan\u2019t be wrong, even on this Sabbath. My small<br \/>\nparadise fills with crows and Mockingbirds.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8216\">John Davis Jr.<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aunt Alexandra composed herself for a two-hour nap and dared us to make any noise in the yard, the neighborhood was resting. &#8212; To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 15 Would you judge me? Begrudge me this one small chore? I too grew up in a South where Sunday meant fake peace and quiet. Only heathens [&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":[17],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2bO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420"}],"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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10192,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/10192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}