{"id":4025,"date":"2012-08-17T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4025"},"modified":"2012-08-17T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T18:15:58","slug":"the-longing-of-the-feet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-longing-of-the-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longing of the Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first the crawling<br \/>\nchild makes his whole body<br \/>\na foot.<\/p>\n<p>One day, dazed<br \/>\nas if by memory,<br \/>\nhe pulls himself up,<\/p>\n<p>discovering, suddenly,<br \/>\nthat the feet<br \/>\nare for carrying<\/p>\n<p>hands. He is so<br \/>\nhappy he cannot stop<br \/>\ntaking the hands<\/p>\n<p>from room to room,<br \/>\nlearning the names<br \/>\nof everything he wants.<\/p>\n<p>This lasts for many years<br \/>\nuntil the feet,<br \/>\nno longer fast enough,<\/p>\n<p>lie forgotten, say,<br \/>\nin the office<br \/>\nunder a desk. Above them<\/p>\n<p>the rest of the body,<br \/>\nwhere the child<br \/>\nhas come to live,<\/p>\n<p>is sending its voice<br \/>\nhundreds of miles<br \/>\nthrough a machine.<\/p>\n<p>Left to themselves<br \/>\nover and over,<br \/>\nthe feet sleep,<\/p>\n<p>awakening<br \/>\none day<br \/>\nbeyond the dead<\/p>\n<p>conversation of the mind<br \/>\nand the hands.<br \/>\nMute in their shoes,<\/p>\n<p>your shoes<br \/>\nand mine,<br \/>\nthey wait,<\/p>\n<p>longing only to stand<br \/>\nthe body<br \/>\nand take it<\/p>\n<p>into its low,<br \/>\nmysterious flight<br \/>\nalong the earth.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4025\" data-postid=\"4025\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4025 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first the crawling child makes his whole body a foot. One day, dazed as if by memory, he pulls himself up, discovering, suddenly, that the feet are for carrying hands. He is so happy he cannot stop taking the hands from room to room, learning the names of everything he wants. This lasts for [&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\/4025"}],"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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4025\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}