{"id":3930,"date":"2012-08-15T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3930"},"modified":"2012-08-23T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:45:37","slug":"hearing-that-my-father-died","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hearing-that-my-father-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing that My Father Died in a Supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first it is difficult<br \/>\nto see you<br \/>\nare dropping dead \u2013<\/p>\n<p>you seem lost<br \/>\nin thought, adjusting your tie<br \/>\nas if to rehearse<\/p>\n<p>some imaginary speech<br \/>\nthough of course beginning<br \/>\nto fall,<\/p>\n<p>your mouth opening wider<br \/>\nthan I have ever seen<br \/>\na mouth,<\/p>\n<p>your hands deep<br \/>\nin your shirt,<br \/>\ngoing down<\/p>\n<p>into the cheeses making the sound<br \/>\nthat is not<br \/>\nmy name,<\/p>\n<p>that explains nothing<br \/>\nover and over,<br \/>\ngoing away<\/p>\n<p>into your hands<br \/>\ninto your face,<br \/>\nleaving this great body<\/p>\n<p>on its knees,<br \/>\nthe father<br \/>\nof my body<\/p>\n<p>which holds me<br \/>\nin this world,<br \/>\nwatching you go<\/p>\n<p>on falling<br \/>\nthrough the Muzak,<br \/>\nmaking the sound<\/p>\n<p>that is not my name,<br \/>\nthat will never<br \/>\nexplain anything, oh father,<\/p>\n<p>stranger, all dressed up<br \/>\nand deserting me<br \/>\nfor the last time.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3930\" data-postid=\"3930\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3930 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first it is difficult to see you are dropping dead \u2013 you seem lost in thought, adjusting your tie as if to rehearse some imaginary speech though of course beginning to fall, your mouth opening wider than I have ever seen a mouth, your hands deep in your shirt, going down into the cheeses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3930\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}