{"id":6516,"date":"2015-03-29T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2015-03-29T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:11:02","slug":"theory-of-moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2015\/03\/29\/theory-of-moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory of Moving On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Theory of Moving On<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>By Erika Bell<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The warm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">chocolate-filled,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">wine colored,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">flowered,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">date nights<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">are among me again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Three months ago I thrived in this time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I twisted my curly hair,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">knotted it around my polished ring finger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and you rubbed my knee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">sending soft shots of confirmation through my veins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Though, I am here again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not here, where we were.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Somewhere new.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I look across the table and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">you&#8217;re not scratching your scruff<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and talking about the impending doom of the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I&#8217;m not staring into your glossy hazel eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">as you wolf down that spinach dip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I look into a dark brown set of eyes now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He talks of working out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There&#8217;s no scruff to scratch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He eats his Greek salad with a fork<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">knife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The bedazzled night is above our heads<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">like a giant headlight on my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory of Moving On By Erika Bell The warm chocolate-filled, wine colored, flowered, date nights are among me again. Three months ago I thrived in this time. I twisted my curly hair, knotted it around my polished ring finger and you rubbed my knee sending soft shots of confirmation through my veins. Though, I am [&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":[89,766,15,765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516"}],"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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}