{"id":1544,"date":"2019-03-05T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2019-03-11T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:16:13","slug":"dear-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/2019\/03\/dear-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Rome,<\/p>\n<p>I was a piece of parchment<br \/>\npaper held together by glass<br \/>\nwhen we last met,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Dear Trevi Fountain,<br \/>\n<\/span>I was eleven when I stopped making wishes<br \/>\nI threw a coin at you<br \/>\nand the milky way fell down<br \/>\nfrom the midnight sky, leaving<br \/>\na trail of dried-dandelion-skeletons.<br \/>\nTheir needles were still piercing me<br \/>\nwhen I saw you leaning<br \/>\nagainst the summer\u2019s naked night.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know how<br \/>\nto break through,<br \/>\nto touch you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Dear Bernini,<br \/>\n<\/span>If the rape of Proserpina<br \/>\ncan be made so soft<br \/>\nthat I can feel my forefinger<br \/>\nmeet my thumb between the skin<br \/>\nhugging my ribs,<br \/>\ncan I be sculpted back to life?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m scared the language<br \/>\nholding us together<br \/>\nwill start to tear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Dear Spolia Wall,<br \/>\n<\/span>You showed me it\u2019s acceptable to hold<br \/>\nonto haphazardly stuck remains.<\/p>\n<p>I keep you trapped<br \/>\nbehind the breaking glass<br \/>\non my phone, hoping<br \/>\nyou will slip through the cracks,<br \/>\nmaterialize into my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Dear Etruscans,<br \/>\n<\/span>You taught me how to exist<br \/>\nwhen I didn\u2019t believe I was alive.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it feels like<br \/>\nwe never met,<br \/>\nI miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Rome, I was a piece of parchment paper held together by glass when we last met, Dear Trevi Fountain, I was eleven when I stopped making wishes I threw a coin at you and the milky way fell down from the midnight sky, leaving a trail of dried-dandelion-skeletons. Their needles were still piercing me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}