{"id":3480,"date":"2025-02-23T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2025-02-23T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:06:36","slug":"bag-of-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Bag of Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3481\" style=\"width:412px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Split-Head-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The human is a bag of grief; a bag pierced with holes,\u00a0<br \/>a multi-headed bag, split and split<br \/>again.\u00a0\u00a0It still asks questions: Who put the country<br \/>in the blender and pressed whirr; who remembers\u00a0<br \/>when \u201cdecent\u201d was what we called citizens?<br \/>Who let homo sapiens out of the bag\u00a0<br \/>to torture their own?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw a moment\u2019s splitting yesterday \u2013\u00a0<br \/>We, human insects, on the glass slide of the microscope\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<br \/>and We, watching through the eyepiece.\u00a0<br \/>We, both the hunter and We, the hunted.\u00a0<br \/>We, both hurt and light-headed.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>We, both nothings in history, and immured in our present.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As water will run each morning<br \/>when we turn the tap and let it run,<br \/>so the bitterness that brittles the blood,\u00a0<br \/>that seizes and chokes off\u00a0<br \/>flow will flow again.\u00a0\u00a0The tap runs;\u00a0<br \/>nothing obsesses me but life;<br \/>in the morning, desire runs again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human is a bag of grief; a bag pierced with holes,\u00a0a multi-headed bag, split and splitagain.\u00a0\u00a0It still asks questions: Who put the countryin the blender and pressed whirr; who remembers\u00a0when \u201cdecent\u201d was what we called citizens?Who let homo sapiens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3480\">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":[1202,1584,1585,138,1586,564,1474],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-desire","tag-disillusion","tag-flow","tag-poetry","tag-realism","tag-renewal","tag-resilience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-U8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","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=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}