{"id":4007,"date":"2012-08-16T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4007"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:12:18","slug":"the-man-in-the-dead-machine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-man-in-the-dead-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man in the Dead Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High on a slope in New Guinea<br \/>\nthe Grumman Hellcat<br \/>\nlodges among bright vines<br \/>\nas thick as arms. In nineteen-forty-three,<br \/>\nthe clenched hand of a pilot<br \/>\nglided it here<br \/>\nwhere no one has ever been.<\/p>\n<p>In the cockpit the helmeted<br \/>\nskeleton sits<br \/>\nupright, held<br \/>\nby dry sinews at neck<br \/>\nand shoulder, and by webbing<br \/>\nthat straps the pelvic cross<br \/>\nto the cracked<br \/>\nleather of the seat, and the breastbone<br \/>\nto the canvas cover<br \/>\nof the parachute.<\/p>\n<p>Or say that the shrapnel<br \/>\nmissed me, I flew<br \/>\nback to the carrier, and every morning<br \/>\ntake the train, my pale<br \/>\nhands on a black case, and sit<br \/>\nupright, held<br \/>\nby the firm webbing.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Donald Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4007\" data-postid=\"4007\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4007 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High on a slope in New Guinea the Grumman Hellcat lodges among bright vines as thick as arms. In nineteen-forty-three, the clenched hand of a pilot glided it here where no one has ever been. In the cockpit the helmeted skeleton sits upright, held by dry sinews at neck and shoulder, and by webbing that [&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\/4007"}],"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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4007\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}