{"id":8443,"date":"2014-08-01T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T04:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:50:06","slug":"what-the-dying-said-to-me-in-the-dream-where-i-became-the-dying-charlie-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8443","title":{"rendered":"What the Dying Said to Me in the Dream Where I Became the Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope heaven is like Mexico in the fifties, <\/p>\n<p>right down to all the petty bribes. <\/p>\n<p>When my first love died, <\/p>\n<p>all year my hands smelled of gasoline. <\/p>\n<p>Each day\u2019s new pall of snow <\/p>\n<p>burned back to swarming blacktop gray.<\/p>\n<p>Grief, I determined, is most constructive <\/p>\n<p>when you channel it through scorn. <\/p>\n<p>When my second love died I started painting birds.<\/p>\n<p>After fifteen years of studies my hands flitted like two wings. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve flown this state so many times <\/p>\n<p>and found nothing lustrous here. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing but grief in circulation. <\/p>\n<p>No matter what, don\u2019t bury me in Michigan.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8216\">Charlie Clark<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope heaven is like Mexico in the fifties, right down to all the petty bribes. When my first love died, all year my hands smelled of gasoline. Each day\u2019s new pall of snow burned back to swarming blacktop gray. Grief, I determined, is most constructive when you channel it through scorn. When my second [&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-2cb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443"}],"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=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10190,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions\/10190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}