{"id":1716,"date":"2014-07-01T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2014-07-03T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:00:14","slug":"tides-a-poem-by-eleanor-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Tides <h6>by Eleanor Holmes<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulled from my mother\u2019s womb,<\/p>\n<p>I clung on. Resisting the waves and<\/p>\n<p>Obstetrician\u2019s skill; his metal hands<\/p>\n<p>clamped on my soft-born skull.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An audience waits to greet me.<\/p>\n<p>Green gowns and flashing knives,<\/p>\n<p>routinely detached. Expected to find<\/p>\n<p>my own way back, I am set adrift.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How I searched for that sea again.<\/p>\n<p>Running further, never settled.<\/p>\n<p>Trapped by narrowed horizons<\/p>\n<p>always wanting to dissolve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still far from her, I\u2019ve found a place<\/p>\n<p>where frets engulf the town.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of the foghorn lulls<\/p>\n<p>me to sleep. The moon a pull away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like to drive with the windows<\/p>\n<p>down, tongue lolling like a dog\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Taste salt and the sea-sting on<\/p>\n<p>my cheeks. The slap of her hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Eleanor Holmes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulled from my mother\u2019s womb, I clung on. Resisting the waves and Obstetrician\u2019s skill; his metal hands clamped on my soft-born skull. &nbsp; An audience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}