{"id":8451,"date":"2014-08-01T22:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T04:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=8451"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:46:43","slug":"knitting-luisa-caycedo-kimura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8451","title":{"rendered":"Knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Make a loop with the end of the yarn,<br \/>\nlike this. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the stroke mam\u00e1\u2019s mind twisted<br \/>\nlike the fringes of the scarf<br \/>\nwe made when I was five.<\/p>\n<p>Her face, a how-to book<br \/>\nleft by the fireplace. <\/p>\n<p><em>Pull the ends. Tighten<br \/>\nthe knot around the needle. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A metal hoist lifted<br \/>\nher like a construction beam. Her eyes<br \/>\nwere gaping mouths.<\/p>\n<p>Pull off the old stitch. Knit<br \/>\nevery row. Keep switching needles. <\/p>\n<p>At the rehab, a lady with skin of roses<br \/>\nand skim milk. Her head,<br \/>\na circlet of yeses and nos.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ten rows of blue, then ten of white.<br \/>\nAgain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A man, a tired bull with bulging eyes,<br \/>\nrepeats almost inaudibly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t pull so much. The loose end<br \/>\nwill come through. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last night the nurses<br \/>\ntied mam\u00e1 to her bed. Leather restraints<br \/>\nlike the last letters of the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>They say she wouldn\u2019t let the others sleep.<br \/>\nThey say they had no choice.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8216\">Luisa Caycedo-Kimura<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a loop with the end of the yarn, like this. After the stroke mam\u00e1\u2019s mind twisted like the fringes of the scarf we made when I was five. Her face, a how-to book left by the fireplace. Pull the ends. Tighten the knot around the needle. A metal hoist lifted her like a construction [&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-2cj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451"}],"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=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}