{"id":9239,"date":"2014-12-01T01:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2015-02-13T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:26:54","slug":"taneum-bambrick-visitors-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/9239","title":{"rendered":"Visitor&#8217;s Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel you loosen grip on me,<br \/>\nmoving, your fingers pressed<br \/>\nto cool Plexiglas.<br \/>\nWe stare into the exposed hatchery pond,<br \/>\nwatching as the 10-foot<br \/>\nsturgeon slides through a shoal<br \/>\nof hovering Coho,<br \/>\nsnapping into sight with elongated<br \/>\nupper-tail lobes.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all bone plates,<br \/>\nsmooth scutes<br \/>\ncatching like knives<br \/>\nin shafts of light.<br \/>\nIt turns to suck on the side of the tank,<br \/>\ntoothless mouth level<br \/>\nwith our faces<br \/>\nfleshy barbels<br \/>\nhanging over gums.<br \/>\nI imagine it gnawing<br \/>\non the muscular hinges<br \/>\nof clam shells\u2014opening<br \/>\nto swallow salmon whole.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called <em>thunder<\/em>,<br \/>\nwhen sturgeon slap their swim<br \/>\nbladders to attract<br \/>\neach other, the small sounds<br \/>\nreverberating in a river.<br \/>\nI wonder if the impulse fades here:<br \/>\nechoing alone in a pool of concrete\u2014<br \/>\nlike how could you wait, still reach after<br \/>\nevery time you\u2019ve strained,<br \/>\nbent your body\u2019s length<br \/>\nto communicate<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8941\">Taneum Bambrick<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel you loosen grip on me, moving, your fingers pressed to cool Plexiglas. We stare into the exposed hatchery pond, watching as the 10-foot sturgeon slides through a shoal of hovering Coho, snapping into sight with elongated upper-tail lobes. It\u2019s all bone plates, smooth scutes catching like knives in shafts of light. It turns [&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-2p1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239"}],"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=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10148,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions\/10148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}