{"id":1785,"date":"2016-04-17T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/camino-liubri01\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-04-17T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:44:17","slug":"brian-sunday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/brian-sunday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian \u2013 Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;&#8230;how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.. &#8221; I add, nonchalantly, to our discussion revolving around whether or not we deserve the help we get.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you got it&#8230;&#8221; Thom says softly, throwing his elbow lightly and playfully into my arm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=307763f49437a360658268d6e1b88780&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h2>Taking It Home to Jerome<\/h2>\n<p class=\"byline\">by David Kirby<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry-content cf\">\n<div class=\"work\">\n<p>In Baton Rouge, there was a DJ on the soul station who was<br \/>\nalways urging his listeners to \u201ctake it on home to Jerome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one knew who Jerome was. And nobody cared. So it<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t matter. I was, what, ten, twelve? I didn\u2019t have anything<\/p>\n<p>to take home to anyone. Parents and teachers told us that all<br \/>\nwe needed to do in this world were three things: be happy,<\/p>\n<p>do good, and find work that fulfills you. But I also wanted<br \/>\nto learn that trick where you grab your left ankle in your<\/p>\n<p>right hand and then jump through with your other leg.<br \/>\nEverything else was to come, everything about love:<\/p>\n<p>the sadness of it, knowing it can\u2019t last, that all lives must end,<br \/>\nall hearts are broken. Sometimes when I\u2019m writing a poem,<\/p>\n<p>I feel as though I\u2019m operating that crusher that turns<br \/>\na full-size car into a metal cube the size of a suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>At other times, I\u2019m just a secretary: the world has so much<br \/>\nto say, and I\u2019m writing it down. This great tenderness<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;&hellip;how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.. &rdquo; I add, nonchalantly, to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/brian-sunday-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"geo":{"latitude":42.3544579,"longitude":-4.8647046,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}