{"id":4033,"date":"2012-08-17T15:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4033"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:10:56","slug":"mute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mute\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once, on the last ice-hauling,<br \/>\nthe sled went through the surface<br \/>\nof the frozen pond,<br \/>\npulling the son under<br \/>\nthe thrashing hooves<br \/>\nof horses. Listening for him<\/p>\n<p>after all her tears was perhaps<br \/>\nwhat drew the mother<br \/>\ninto that silence. Long afternoons<br \/>\nshe sat with the daughter,<br \/>\nspeaking in the sign language<br \/>\nthey invented together,<br \/>\ngoing deaf to the world.<\/p>\n<p>How, exactly, did they touch<br \/>\ntheir mouths? What was the thought<br \/>\nof the old man on the porch<br \/>\ngrowing so drunk by nightfall<br \/>\nhe could not hear<br \/>\nmosquitoes in his ears?<\/p>\n<p>There is so much no one remembers<br \/>\nabout the farm where sound,<br \/>\neven the bawling of the unmilked cows,<br \/>\ncame to a stop. Even the man\u2019s name,<\/p>\n<p>which neighbors must have spoken<br \/>\npassing by in twilight, on their way<br \/>\nto forgetting it forever.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4033\" data-postid=\"4033\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4033 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, on the last ice-hauling, the sled went through the surface of the frozen pond, pulling the son under the thrashing hooves of horses. Listening for him after all her tears was perhaps what drew the mother into that silence. Long afternoons she sat with the daughter, speaking in the sign language they invented together, [&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\/4033"}],"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=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4033\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}