{"id":304,"date":"2021-03-04T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/?p=304"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:45:14","slug":"petrarch-by-natalie-rudin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/petrarch-by-natalie-rudin\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrarch by Natalie Rudin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">do you remember sitting in the pews, heavy energies blanketing your hands,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not letting you pick up your pride and your dignity up from the floor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">before the herd of believers trample them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you\u2019re going to cause the death of a deer. it will impale itself on your front gate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and mock you with its apathetic eyes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">salt is piled on your pillowcase again &#8211; why aren\u2019t you licking it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">why don\u2019t you taste it? everyone has to, why are you some exception?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a bird eats a man and a man reaches out from under your bed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and a man wants you to help him grieve,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to contort your face and share his sorrows alongside him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">now in poverty, philosophy is naked,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and you watch it sink into the eager grasses of your well fed lawn;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it doesn\u2019t look you in the eye. it is ashamed, and you should be as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>do you remember sitting in the pews, heavy energies blanketing your hands, not letting you pick up your pride and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65190],"tags":[65219,348],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quarantine-preface","tag-natalie-rudin","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/preface\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}