{"id":4027,"date":"2012-08-17T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4027"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:07:46","slug":"my-brother-inside-the-revolving-doors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/my-brother-inside-the-revolving-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brother Inside the Revolving Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see you in Chicago, twenty-five years ago,<br \/>\na tall kid, surprisingly sure of yourself.<br \/>\nYou have just arrived from the goat farm<br \/>\nto meet your father, the god you invented<br \/>\nafter he left you in childhood.<br \/>\nIt is the sunniest day you can remember,<br \/>\nand you walk the wide streets<br \/>\nof the city by his side in the dream<br \/>\nyou have had all along of this moment,<br \/>\nexcept you are beginning to see how different<br \/>\nhe looks, and how he does not care<br \/>\nabout this in the same way that you do.<br \/>\nWhich is when it happens, you are taken<br \/>\ninside the doors. Just like that<br \/>\nyou are shut off from him, walking<br \/>\nin the weightlessness of your own fear.<br \/>\nAnd when you push your door, it leads<br \/>\nto other retreating doors, and again<br \/>\nand again, it takes you to the voice of him,<br \/>\nthe fat man standing outside who has nothing,<br \/>\nsuddenly, to do with your father and shouts<br \/>\nlet go! let go! and you cannot let go.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4027\" data-postid=\"4027\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4027 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see you in Chicago, twenty-five years ago, a tall kid, surprisingly sure of yourself. You have just arrived from the goat farm to meet your father, the god you invented after he left you in childhood. It is the sunniest day you can remember, and you walk the wide streets of the city by [&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\/4027"}],"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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4027\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}