{"id":4041,"date":"2012-08-17T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4041"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:16:16","slug":"the-faith-healer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-faith-healer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faith Healer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I turned,<br \/>\nit was like the father<br \/>\nhad been walking right<br \/>\ntoward me forever<br \/>\nwith his eyes shut<br \/>\npushing that boy,<br \/>\nall washed up and<br \/>\ndressed up and riding<br \/>\nabove those long spokes<br \/>\nshooting light like<br \/>\nhe was something more than arms<br \/>\nand a chest. Already<br \/>\nthe mother was saying please,<br \/>\noh please, partly to me<br \/>\npartly because she heard<br \/>\nthe sound, so soft<br \/>\nand far off at first<br \/>\nyou might have never guessed it<br \/>\nwas going to be the father<br \/>\nwith his eyes shut, screaming.<br \/>\nBut I knew, and I knew<br \/>\neven before it stopped<br \/>\nand he began to point<br \/>\ndown at his son\u2019s<br \/>\nsteel feet and whatever<br \/>\nwas inside the dead<br \/>\nballoons of his pants,<br \/>\nthe father did it. So when<br \/>\nhe said he did it,<br \/>\nI was thinking of how<br \/>\nonly his mouth was moving<br \/>\nin his shut face like<br \/>\nhe had gone somewhere<br \/>\noutside of his body<br \/>\nwhich he could not stand.<br \/>\nAnd when he said<br \/>\nhe did it because his son<br \/>\nburned the new barn down<br \/>\nto the ground, then shook<br \/>\nand shook so you could see<br \/>\nhe was inside his body<br \/>\nand could never leave,<br \/>\nall I could think<br \/>\nwas how the wind was moving<br \/>\nthe tent. Lifting it up<br \/>\nand up around the father<br \/>\nwho could not see it lifting,<br \/>\nand the mother with the no-<br \/>\ncolor dress, and that small,<br \/>\nstill boy, all washed up<br \/>\nand dressed up and<br \/>\nlooking right at me<br \/>\nalmost like it was OK<br \/>\nbeing a chest. Which was the moment<br \/>\nwhen my own legs went out<br \/>\nfrom under me, and I woke<br \/>\nwith the cold steel bars<br \/>\nof his wheelchair fast<br \/>\nin my hands, and shouting<br \/>\nlike for the first<br \/>\ntime, heal, oh heal,<br \/>\nover and over to the legs<br \/>\nthat could not walk,<br \/>\nand to the legs<br \/>\nthat could, and to everyone,<br \/>\neverywhere, who could never<br \/>\nget free from such sadness.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4041\" data-postid=\"4041\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4041 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I turned, it was like the father had been walking right toward me forever with his eyes shut pushing that boy, all washed up and dressed up and riding above those long spokes shooting light like he was something more than arms and a chest. Already the mother was saying please, oh please, partly [&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\/4041"}],"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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4041\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}