{"id":667,"date":"2011-06-13T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:21:16","slug":"biting-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/poetry\/biting-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Biting iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a grating sound that sounds like the sound you get when you drag an iron manhole cover aside on a concrete sidewalk &#8212; not that many people have actually heard that sound except in movies or on television, but thanks to TV and movies, everyone has a pretty good idea of what it sounds like. Imagine sitting on a speaker that&#8217;s playing that sound at high volume and feeling the vibrations of that sound throughout your whole body &#8212; or better yet, imagine how it would sound, how it would <em>feel<\/em>, to be <em>biting<\/em> the iron while it&#8217;s being dragged across the concrete, how it would sound, how it would <em>feel<\/em> to have that sound, that vibration transmitted into your body, into your skull, via bone conduction. Imagine that sound, that vibration, that feeling, going on for hours. For days. For <em>a year<\/em>. Or more.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what it feels like to pretend everything&#8217;s okay when it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a grating sound that sounds like the sound you get when you drag an iron manhole cover aside on a concrete sidewalk &#8212; not that many people have actually heard that sound except in movies or on television, but thanks to TV and movies, everyone has a pretty good idea of what it sounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-aL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}