{"id":17878,"date":"2015-07-14T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=17878"},"modified":"2015-07-13T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T18:24:31","slug":"magnesium-marrow-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/magnesium-marrow-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnesium Marrow-Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Listen!<br \/>\nYou can hear her pale voice<br \/>\nfrom within the conflagration.<br \/>\nIt always speaks truth.<br \/>\nIt always lies.<br \/>\nShe crackles like marrow-bone<br \/>\nwhen she walks.<br \/>\nHer eyes and mouth open<br \/>\nand burn like magnesium.<br \/>\nShe is a contrary Gorgon;<br \/>\neverything she looks at<br \/>\nis forced into frenzied life.<br \/>\nIf you are very lucky<br \/>\nand can run after her<br \/>\nuntil she catches you,<br \/>\nyou can put her in a canning jar<br \/>\nto hold in the air:<\/p>\n<p>a blaze of fireflies<br \/>\nto light the darkness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Sandra Kasturi, &#8220;The Burning Woman&#8221; from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sandrakasturi.com\/\">The Animal Bridegroom<\/a><\/em> via <a href=\"http:\/\/immobileexplorations.blogspot.com\/\">Megan Kurashige<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen! You can hear her pale voice from within the conflagration. It always speaks truth. It always lies. She crackles like marrow-bone when she walks. Her eyes and mouth open and burn like magnesium. She is a contrary Gorgon; everything she looks at is forced into frenzied life. If you are very lucky and can [&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":[2526,2549],"class_list":["post-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-burning","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17878"}],"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! -->