{"id":1,"date":"2021-03-25T04:08:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T04:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:41:24","slug":"abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Even Thomas knew his Summa<br>was not enough<br>to answer the sharp scrape of sin<br>echoing in the cavern of my chest<br>keeping me up<br>every Friday night for a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the next and the next and the next<br>story of women and children &#8211;<br>and men &#8211;<br>thrust down on their knees<br>by unholy power,<br>the smoke from a straw-burning fire<br>drowns me a little more and a little more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over and again and still once more, I lift<br>my eyes to the naked<br>man and watch his unmovements<br>through the flames<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>just long enough to doubt &#8211;<br>to suspect that this scarcity is all<br>that will ever respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could this be\u2013is this really all\u2013<br>this just might be the surrender\u2013<br>no,<br>the abandonment<br>I have been so afraid of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/denys-amaro-9i44SEdzoYE-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" width=\"345\" height=\"516\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Thomas knew his Summawas not enoughto answer the sharp scrape of sinechoing in the cavern of my chestkeeping me upevery Friday night for a year. With the next and the next and the nextstory of women and children &#8211;and men &#8211;thrust down on their kneesby unholy power,the smoke from a straw-burning firedrowns me a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pelican","category-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}