{"id":8462,"date":"2014-08-01T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:28:44","slug":"bore-trina-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8462","title":{"rendered":"Bore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\nIt\u2019s Wednesday. At one thousand and one<br \/>\nshe says she\u2019s running out.<br \/>\nTo begin with, a horse, Sahara, a name and a place wherefrom and far.<br \/>\nThe fence wire that penetrates her shoulder as she, startled, trips into it.<br \/>\nA disaster a day for a week.<br \/>\nSwamp bugs covering it all with a hum or an Om.<br \/>\nTrees saturated with rain split in two, felled with the force of Babe the Blue Ox.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve watched live footage.<br \/>\nI might swim to the rescue and fail every time.<br \/>\nThat infanticide should even be a word.<br \/>\nThe most surprising way to enter a house uninvited<br \/>\nis through the front door.<br \/>\nJust as mundane and pattern-oriented as<br \/>\nbohemian life. I\u2019m not made that way.<br \/>\nA creature fished out of your abdomen as you lie prone.<br \/>\nJust drink the evening away with phallic<br \/>\npictographs etched into the wood<br \/>\nfor company. That smell?<br \/>\nRot-gas, trapped in the alley out back.<br \/>\nPiss and chicken. People.<br \/>\nThe most unexpected way to leave is to stay.<br \/>\nA stranger might stop<br \/>\na girl in a parking lot swinging<br \/>\na gallon of milk. Tell her<br \/>\nshe\u2019s \u201cabsolutely beautiful.\u201d Ask her<br \/>\nif she has a car.<br \/>\nGod, just let me rest.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8216\">Trina Burke<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Wednesday. At one thousand and one she says she\u2019s running out. To begin with, a horse, Sahara, a name and a place wherefrom and far. The fence wire that penetrates her shoulder as she, startled, trips into it. A disaster a day for a week. Swamp bugs covering it all with a hum or [&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-2cu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462"}],"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=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}