{"id":9190,"date":"2014-12-01T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:26:29","slug":"pedro-poitevin-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/9190","title":{"rendered":"Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left. My bones still felt the wound<br \/>\nof arms that wound around my frame;<br \/>\nmy skull remained a chamber tuned<br \/>\nto litanies of love; my name\u2014<br \/>\ntheir leitmotif\u2014became a spell<br \/>\ntoo long for form I-94.<br \/>\nI thought I had abandoned hell<br \/>\nbut learned it travels light. The war<br \/>\nhad ended long ago and yet<br \/>\nDeath played and hummed its meager blues<br \/>\nand grinned along. I don&#8217;t regret<br \/>\nleaving the place: I pay my dues.<br \/>\nYet sometimes I recall that scene<br \/>\nof innocence at gate 16.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8941\">Pedro Poitevin<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left. My bones still felt the wound of arms that wound around my frame; my skull remained a chamber tuned to litanies of love; my name\u2014 their leitmotif\u2014became a spell too long for form I-94. I thought I had abandoned hell but learned it travels light. The war had ended long ago and yet [&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":[7],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2oe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190"}],"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=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}