{"id":3949,"date":"2012-08-16T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3949"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:49:36","slug":"the-thin-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-thin-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thin Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a mirror<br \/>\nas it folded hair<br \/>\nback from its face<\/p>\n<p>he discovered his eyes<br \/>\nearnest, lonely.<br \/>\nThis was the beginning<\/p>\n<p>of his life<br \/>\ninside the body,<br \/>\nof standing deep in the legs<\/p>\n<p>of it,<br \/>\nheld<br \/>\nin its elbowless arms.<\/p>\n<p>And when it walked<br \/>\nhe walked,<br \/>\nand when it slept<\/p>\n<p>he dreamed of drowning<br \/>\nunder its lakes<br \/>\nof skin.<\/p>\n<p>Oh the thin man<br \/>\ntrying to get out<br \/>\nlearned of its great<\/p>\n<p>locked breasts<br \/>\nits seamless chin,<br \/>\nthe dead ends<\/p>\n<p>of its hands.<br \/>\nAnd oh the heavy body<br \/>\ntook him<\/p>\n<p>to tables<br \/>\nof food<br \/>\nand took him down<\/p>\n<p>into the groaning<br \/>\ncarnal bed.<br \/>\nThe pitiless body took him<\/p>\n<p>to a mirror<br \/>\nwhich showed<br \/>\nthe eyes<\/p>\n<p>in a face<br \/>\nimmense and dying,<br \/>\nwho he was.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3949\" data-postid=\"3949\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3949 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a mirror as it folded hair back from its face he discovered his eyes earnest, lonely. This was the beginning of his life inside the body, of standing deep in the legs of it, held in its elbowless arms. And when it walked he walked, and when it slept he dreamed of drowning [&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\/3949"}],"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=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3949\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}