{"id":2820,"date":"2022-06-26T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2022-06-27T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T00:00:28","slug":"civil-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"Civil Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-843x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2824\" width=\"405\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-843x1024.jpg 843w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-1264x1536.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3342-1685x2048.jpg 1685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Things incandesce.&nbsp; Glow with heat,&nbsp;<br \/>break into flame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as a water glass sitting on the edge<br \/>of a sunny table will alight&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and you\u2019ll find this small burning thing&nbsp;<br \/>wanting\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wanting \u2014 as prayer, as silence of the answer. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the doubleness of things, of words.<br \/>What does civil mean now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>its cudgled emptiness<br \/>breakdown in definition&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>enough to incandesce<br \/>in brother war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>civil disobedience<br \/>loses its pact of politeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it\u2019s civil to leave newborns in a drop box<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>why not drop at her house &#8211;&nbsp;<br \/>one, ten, a hundred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let the possessed with bionic eyes<br \/>remain apart, on a sun-struck table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to burn themselves out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things incandesce.&nbsp; Glow with heat,&nbsp;break into flame as a water glass sitting on the edgeof a sunny table will alight&nbsp; and you\u2019ll find this small burning thing&nbsp;wanting\u2014 wanting \u2014 as prayer, as silence of the answer. &nbsp; So the doubleness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2820\">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":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}