{"id":453,"date":"2023-09-08T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=453"},"modified":"2023-09-08T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:39:20","slug":"veronica-patterson-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/453","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Patterson, &#8220;Gravity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Veronica Patterson<\/h2>\n<h3>Gravity<\/h3>\n<p>At the window facing west, I gauge the storm\u2019s debris\u2014<br \/>\nlast leaves, twisted locust pods spilling seeds, bare branches,<br \/>\nlong strips of bark peeled from the old maple. Squirrels<br \/>\nfrenzied in the disordered too-much. One pauses,<br \/>\nerect, on one end of a curved strip of bark. Another, leaping<br \/>\nfrom the maple\u2019s trunk, lands on the other end, lifting<br \/>\nthe first, which comes down, whipping the other up,<br \/>\nand for an oddly elastic moment they jump alternately,<br \/>\nsee-sawing. I laugh. True story, I could add, as we<br \/>\nsometimes say, as if none of the others we told<br \/>\nwere. Truth being no more than\u2014no, released from\u2014<br \/>\nthis rib of bark in the littered back yard. For a moment<br \/>\nI see my younger brother in his torn blue jacket, straddling<br \/>\na board on one side of a fulcrum, rising on a playground<br \/>\na thousand miles away, as the years come down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veronicapatterson.net\/gravity\">Forthcoming in Tar River Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veronica Patterson Gravity At the window facing west, I gauge the storm\u2019s debris\u2014 last leaves, twisted locust pods spilling seeds, bare branches, long strips of bark peeled from the old maple. Squirrels frenzied in the disordered too-much. One pauses, erect, on one end of a curved strip of bark. Another, leaping from the maple\u2019s trunk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}