{"id":81,"date":"2006-04-06T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/06\/philology-viii\/"},"modified":"2006-04-07T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T17:13:39","slug":"philology-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/06\/philology-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Philology VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>someday.<\/p>\n<p>Adriana Caselotti as Snow White<br \/>\nintroduced a lot of WW2 kids<br \/>\nto nostalgia for the future.<!--more--><br \/>\nWe lived in a world of menace<br \/>\nWhere, most of our daddies<br \/>\nwere away fighting for our future.<br \/>\nOur mothers nurtured in us<br \/>\na complex hope that our daddies<br \/>\nwould return safe and happy<br \/>\nyet it was during that time that<br \/>\nthey got a taste of freedom<br \/>\nthat might be illicit: a matriarchy<br \/>\nthat might be threatened<br \/>\nby Daddy&#8217;s return.<br \/>\nWhether we felt that or not<br \/>\nthe future return of Daddy<br \/>\nwas a cause of future nostalgia<br \/>\nbut after he returned<br \/>\nif he did it was a cause of<br \/>\ngreat nostalgia for the past<br \/>\nbecause mostly Daddy had a tension<br \/>\nthat made his shoulders tight<br \/>\nmade him tired, silent, moody<br \/>\na journey through that kind of hell<br \/>\ncan wreak that kind of change<br \/>\nThe silence of returned men<br \/>\nis a promise that someday<br \/>\nsome of that war might leak out<br \/>\nmight leak out through<br \/>\na weepy eye a diseased liver<br \/>\na fist a pen a typewriter<br \/>\neven by proxy a child&#8217;s fist or gun<\/p>\n<p>someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>someday. Adriana Caselotti as Snow White introduced a lot of WW2 kids to nostalgia for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-philology","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}