{"id":115,"date":"2014-02-17T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/?p=115"},"modified":"2014-03-26T20:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:39:16","slug":"permanent-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/2014\/02\/17\/permanent-marker\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Marker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">\u201cThis is as old as you\u2019re ever going to get.\u201d \u2013<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"> <\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Dorothy Allison<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I refuse to delete your phone number and birthday from my list of contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Every day I look at photos of you (but they don\u2019t smell like you or sound like you or smirk when I say those \u201cbig words\u201d).<\/li>\n<li>Your ashes look like beach sand; a bag of the coast resting in an oak box in our family\u2019s home, on a mountain.<\/li>\n<li>Your body in the coroner\u2019s bag haunts me, your azure eyes glazed but pupils clear, head turned to the side like a child waiting to be plucked from bed.<\/li>\n<li>Our parents have become my parents, have become lost swimmers drowning, thrashing and crashing, have become waves, have become the sea.<\/li>\n<li>We carry the dog tags and Afghani coins from your deployment in our pockets.<\/li>\n<li>Your teeth, the ones you lost as a child, are still in the Aleve bottle in Dad\u2019s medicine cabinet.<\/li>\n<li>I stole a bottle of cologne from your room. It sits on my shelf and your name, the one you wrote in permanent marker, is slowly fading from the glass.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Cooper &nbsp; \u201cThis is as old as you\u2019re ever going to get.\u201d \u2013 Dorothy Allison\u00a0 I refuse to delete your phone number and birthday from my list of contacts. Every day I look at photos of you (but they don\u2019t smell like you or sound like you or smirk when I say those \u201cbig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-by"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}