{"id":12575,"date":"2020-01-22T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T13:18:12","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/01\/22\/the-poetry-snapshot-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To your left,<br \/>\na man with a briefcase<br \/>\nand slicked back hair.<\/p>\n<p>His face is motionless,<br \/>\nas though captured in a photograph.<br \/>\nHe keeps his head tucked down<br \/>\nand is lost in regret.<\/p>\n<p>To your right,<br \/>\na mother with a small child,<br \/>\ncrying for care.<\/p>\n<p>The mother&#8217;s eyes blink in exhaustion,<br \/>\nbut the child commands her full attention.<br \/>\nStill, the mother carries unconditional love and gratitude,<br \/>\nfor finally being able to hold a child of her own.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12579\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 338px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12579\" style=\"-webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -1ex;\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_793823153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_793823153.jpg 320w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_793823153-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Nashville, Tennessee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of you cross the street<br \/>\nwithout acknowledging each other;<br \/>\nwithout realizing how different<br \/>\nyour paths have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p>But somehow,<br \/>\nright now,<br \/>\nyou all cross the street.<br \/>\nFor the next ten seconds,<br \/>\nyou will share your lives together.<br \/>\nAnd then,<br \/>\nyou will never see them again.<\/p>\n<p>What a magical effort of time,<br \/>\nto bring together people<br \/>\nin such small ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To your left, a man with a briefcase and slicked back hair. His face is motionless, as though captured in a photograph. He keeps his head tucked down and is lost in regret. To your right, a mother with a small child, crying for care. The mother&#8217;s eyes blink in exhaustion, but the child commands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}