{"id":17406,"date":"2015-02-28T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=17406"},"modified":"2015-02-26T01:55:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:55:18","slug":"a-turtle-or-iguana-of-noble-bearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/a-turtle-or-iguana-of-noble-bearing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turtle or Iguana of Noble Bearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The humidifier made its low, endless sound. My crying, too, moved in a smooth, gentle flow, the low mutter of a car exhaust or a crazy person, with a feeling like little quick wet creatures moving below my thoughts on cold feet, darting between dark, damp places.<\/p>\n<p>In her bed Georgia shifted and turned. She began to cry again. Apparently in her sleep. I shaped her blanket over her and tried to quiet her, but soon the sound of her weeping was too awful. I felt I might be infecting her, and she needed to sleep. I had to leave.<\/p>\n<p>I found Lana in the hallway. The dim light made elaborate shadows in the hollowed features of her face. We stood listening. After only half a minute Georgia had quieted herself. Silence engulfed us. I was thinking that all this was my fault in ways that would be clear to me later. It seemed that I never could see myself in full except as that jerk in my past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Nick Arvin, <em>The Crying Man<\/em>, published in Ploughshares Fall 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humidifier made its low, endless sound. My crying, too, moved in a smooth, gentle flow, the low mutter of a car exhaust or a crazy person, with a feeling like little quick wet creatures moving below my thoughts on cold feet, darting between dark, damp places. In her bed Georgia shifted and turned. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-17406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->