{"id":93345,"date":"2019-11-07T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=93345"},"modified":"2019-11-21T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:24:05","slug":"greetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=93345","title":{"rendered":"Greetings."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Greetings.<\/p>\n<p>Love is stronger than this.<br \/>\nWe lived here. We&#8217;re still here.<\/p>\n<p>Like sperm swarming a single egg<br \/>\nour smell gets inside you<\/p>\n<p>your face covered in rags, confused<br \/>\nyou came to visit us<\/p>\n<p>our engorged rigor faces<br \/>\nimpaled on razor grass<\/p>\n<p>news anchors call us a suicide.<br \/>\nVibrant shirts and bell bottoms<\/p>\n<p>helicopter rotors scythe the sky<br \/>\nwe lay still in defeat<\/p>\n<p>we were shorted.<br \/>\nCount us again.<\/p>\n<p>Our global debut<br \/>\nafter two days alone<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s so much to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Greetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Greetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">There&#8217;s so much to tell you<br \/>\nafter two days alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Our global debut<br \/>\ncount us again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">We were shorted.<br \/>\nWe lay still in defeat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Helicopter rotors scythe the sky:<br \/>\nvibrant shirts and bell bottoms<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">news anchors call us a suicide.<br \/>\nImpaled on razor grass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">our engorged rigor faces:<br \/>\nyou came to visit us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">your face covered in rags, confused<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">our smell gets inside you<br \/>\nlike sperm swarming a single egg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">we lived here. We&#8217;re still here.<br \/>\nLove is stronger than this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Greetings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(Danielle Walker holds a degree in creative writing and poetics from the University of Victoria (2008). She lives with her husband Cody, 10 year old daughter, Bronwen, and three cats, Henry, Sophia, and Victoria, in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Her other contribution to this site is <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=93481\">Understanding the Note<\/a>. She can be reached at <\/em> <a href=\"mailto:recordthis@shaw.ca\"><em>recordthis@shaw.ca<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings. Love is stronger than this. We lived here. We&#8217;re still here. Like sperm swarming a single egg our smell gets inside you your face covered in rags, confused you came to visit us our engorged rigor faces impaled on razor grass news anchors call us a suicide. Vibrant shirts and bell bottoms helicopter rotors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":83654,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93484,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93345\/revisions\/93484"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}