{"id":3673,"date":"2013-10-13T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2013-10-13T18:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:22:23","slug":"a-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2013\/10\/13\/a-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"A Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s too quiet, I can&#8217;t stand it.<\/p>\n<p>We rode in the car one day,<\/p>\n<p>your head bobbing above the seat as we<\/p>\n<p>twisted and turned and whirled<\/p>\n<p>through an eternal wind tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Your voice.<\/p>\n<p>Like a vacuum sucking up cracker crumbs,<\/p>\n<p>crack crack waaaaaa.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t hear you<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could hear you.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s too quiet I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Your voice.<\/p>\n<p>Like a cooing baby&#8217;s when you wanted to be sweet, I hated it.<\/p>\n<p>I shriveled down two years every time you sprinkled your sweetness on me.<\/p>\n<p>I love it.<\/p>\n<p>Tight hugs, ripped shirts, wet embraces.<\/p>\n<p>You needed that hug.<\/p>\n<p>I need that hug.<\/p>\n<p>You named me after a Disney character who liked honey<\/p>\n<p>and a snack little kids smack between their cheeks,<\/p>\n<p>I imagine<\/p>\n<p>while I write this<\/p>\n<p>those names will fall down on me<\/p>\n<p>from upstairs from your room<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too quiet, I can&#8217;t stand it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s too quiet, I can&#8217;t stand it. We rode in the car one day, your head bobbing above the seat as we twisted and turned and whirled through an eternal wind tunnel. Your voice. Like a vacuum sucking up cracker crumbs, crack crack waaaaaa. I couldn&#8217;t hear you I wish I could hear you. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3679,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}