{"id":2302,"date":"2020-11-01T17:33:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2020-11-01T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:34:09","slug":"they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"THEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_9574-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2303\" width=\"466\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_9574-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_9574-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_9574-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_9574-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_9574-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THEY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kafka saw it, part tragedy, part comic.&nbsp;<br \/>They pulled us off our axis<br \/>put us in immobilis, the gnawing cell<br \/>of isolation, of terror<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who is there, with a hand to catch \u2014&nbsp;<br \/>to touch us \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time slows down&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>stands&nbsp;<br \/>still&nbsp;<br \/>the top keeps&nbsp;<br \/>spinning tottering&nbsp;<br \/>neither stopping nor falling&nbsp;<br \/>turning in exhaustion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We knew to cut the rug<br \/>foot-deep in the middle of the sensuous world,<br \/>each moment waking the next<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whisk, whisk.&nbsp; Blow.&nbsp; Spin it on its head<br \/>to rest in the dark. &nbsp;<br \/>Whirl, dear life, impertinent joy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEY Kafka saw it, part tragedy, part comic.&nbsp;They pulled us off our axisput us in immobilis, the gnawing cellof isolation, of terror who is there, with a hand to catch \u2014&nbsp;to touch us \u2014 Time slows down&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stands&nbsp;still&nbsp;the top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,1040,1036,1041,1038,138,1037,1039],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty","tag-beauty-is-not-a-luxury","tag-elections","tag-kafka","tag-poems-of-resistance","tag-poetry","tag-resistance","tag-saidiya-hartman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4D5qU-they","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}