{"id":5233,"date":"2011-05-26T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2017-08-11T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:04:50","slug":"happiness-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/happiness-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Wesley McNair<\/span><\/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\/Happiness-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>Happiness<\/h4>\n<p>Why, Dot asks, stuck in the back<br \/>\nseat of her sister&#8217;s two-door, her freckled hand<br \/>\nfeeling the roof for the right spot<br \/>\nto pull her wide self up onto her left,<br \/>\nthe unarthritic, ankle &#8211; why<br \/>\ndoes her sister, coaching outside on her cane,<br \/>\nhave to make her laugh so, she flops<br \/>\nback just as she was, though now<br \/>\nlooking wistfully out through the restaurant<br \/>\nreflected in her back window, she seems bigger,<br \/>\nand couldn&#8217;t possibly mean we should go<br \/>\nahead in without her, she&#8217;ll be all right, and so<br \/>\nwhen you finally place the pillow behind her back<br \/>\nand lift her right out into the sunshine,<br \/>\nall four of us are happy, none more<br \/>\nthan she, who straightens the blossoms<br \/>\non her blouse, says how nice it is to get out<br \/>\nonce in awhile, and then goes in to eat<br \/>\nwith the greatest delicacy (oh<br \/>\nI could never finish all that) and aplomb<br \/>\nthe complete roast beef dinner with apple crisp<br \/>\nad ice cream, just a small scoop.<\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear &#8220;Happiness&#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":[528,394,223],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233"}],"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=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13440,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions\/13440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}