{"id":5219,"date":"2011-05-26T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2017-07-11T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:56:44","slug":"manradios-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/manradios-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man With the Radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Wesley McNair<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2010\/03\/The-man-with-the-radios-edited-mp3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<h4>The Man with the Radios<\/h4>\n<p>Beyond the curtainless<br \/>\nbay windows of his room<br \/>\non the side street,<\/p>\n<p>he kneels<br \/>\namong old radios, left<br \/>\nfrom a time of belief<\/p>\n<p>in radios,<br \/>\nsome dangling fat<br \/>\ntails of cord<\/p>\n<p>from end tables, some<br \/>\nin darkening corners<br \/>\nsprouting hairs of wire<\/p>\n<p>from their great backs,<br \/>\nand this strange one<br \/>\nhe has chosen,<\/p>\n<p>standing on the paws<br \/>\nof an African cat.<br \/>\nThe man with the radios<\/p>\n<p>is so far away<br \/>\nin his gaze you would swear<br \/>\nhe sees nothing,<\/p>\n<p>so still you might miss<br \/>\nhow he concentrates<br \/>\non not moving<\/p>\n<p>his hand. Slowly,<br \/>\nslowly he turns<br \/>\nits ridged<\/p>\n<p>knob in the dark,<br \/>\nlistening for the sound<br \/>\nhe has prepared it for,<\/p>\n<p>watching with his absent eyes<br \/>\nthat film that clear<br \/>\nfrom a green eye.<\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear &#8220;The Man With the Radios&#8221; read by Wesley McNair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,577,302,226],"tags":[524,394,223],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12955,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/12955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}