{"id":328,"date":"2014-10-06T04:27:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T08:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightowl.owu.edu\/?p=328"},"modified":"2014-10-06T04:27:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T08:27:58","slug":"in-the-beginning-there-was-a-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/2014\/10\/06\/in-the-beginning-there-was-a-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Beginning, There Was A Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley M. Jones<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After I was born,<\/p>\n<p>I cried for three months straight.<\/p>\n<p>My mouth, a great brown crack<\/p>\n<p>in the Alabama soil,<\/p>\n<p>sprouted wondrous wails.<\/p>\n<p>My tongue,<\/p>\n<p>a cotton candy spade,<\/p>\n<p>licked the air,<\/p>\n<p>and it tasted of ticking<\/p>\n<p>and the salt<\/p>\n<p>of baby formula.<\/p>\n<p>Each day,<\/p>\n<p>I was a siren.<\/p>\n<p>Five o\u2019 clock, exactly,<\/p>\n<p>and I\u2019d scream until nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>Alive, I said.<\/p>\n<p>Pain, I said.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I stopped<\/p>\n<p>because it is hard<\/p>\n<p>to keep roaring.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because<\/p>\n<p>I felt the warm burn<\/p>\n<p>of my mother\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>loving ear.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe,<\/p>\n<p>because we grow up,<\/p>\n<p>and at some point,<\/p>\n<p>there\u2019s nothing<\/p>\n<p>more to do<\/p>\n<p>with a voice<\/p>\n<p>than to hum drum<\/p>\n<p>and whisper<\/p>\n<p>as loud<\/p>\n<p>as you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley M. Jones &nbsp; After I was born, I cried for three months straight. My mouth, a great brown crack in the Alabama soil, sprouted wondrous wails. My tongue, a cotton candy spade, licked the air, and it tasted of ticking and the salt of baby formula. Each day, I was a siren. Five o\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","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\/328","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\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}