{"id":3941,"date":"2012-08-15T17:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3941"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:46:03","slug":"the-bald-spot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-bald-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bald Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It nods<br \/>\nbehind me<br \/>\nas I speak<br \/>\nat the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>All night<br \/>\nwhile I sleep<br \/>\nit stares<br \/>\ninto the dark.<\/p>\n<p>The bald spot<br \/>\nis bored.<br \/>\nTired of waiting<br \/>\nin the office,<\/p>\n<p>sick of following me<br \/>\ninto sex.<br \/>\nIt traces<br \/>\nand retraces<\/p>\n<p>itself,<br \/>\ndreaming<br \/>\nthe shape<br \/>\nof worlds<\/p>\n<p>beyond its world.<br \/>\nFar away<br \/>\nit hears the laughter<br \/>\nof my colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>the swift sure<br \/>\nsound of my voice.<br \/>\nThe bald spot<br \/>\nsays nothing.<\/p>\n<p>It peers<br \/>\nout from hair<br \/>\nlike the face<br \/>\nof a doomed man<\/p>\n<p>going blanker<br \/>\nand blanker,<br \/>\nwalking backwards<br \/>\ninto my life.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3941\" data-postid=\"3941\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3941 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It nods behind me as I speak at the meeting. All night while I sleep it stares into the dark. The bald spot is bored. Tired of waiting in the office, sick of following me into sex. It traces and retraces itself, dreaming the shape of worlds beyond its world. Far away it hears the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3941"}],"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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3941\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}