{"id":1452,"date":"2017-05-24T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:51:30","slug":"suppose-you-do-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/suppose-you-do-change-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppose You Do Change Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <em>In conversation with Rilke and Ocean Vuong<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nWhat if getting old is traveling backward,<br \/>\nregaining your first eyes,<\/p>\n<p>your portion of blood and bone<br \/>\nno longer scaled with wound. Suppose<\/p>\n<p>you awake without your skin, all your senses<br \/>\nfelled by sleep. The girl you were<\/p>\n<p>is gone. So you breathe in the moon,<br \/>\nrebuild yourself in the shadow of its light<\/p>\n<p>until your torso is the translucent cascade<br \/>\nof your breath and you see, through the lens<\/p>\n<p>of your last hour, the instant you first opened<br \/>\nto earth\u2019s color and earth\u2019s air.<\/p>\n<p>In the act of going forward and back<br \/>\nall your borders explode into sky,<\/p>\n<p>and there is no time you cannot be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In conversation with Rilke and Ocean Vuong What if getting old is traveling backward, regaining your first eyes, your portion of blood and bone no longer scaled with wound. Suppose you awake without your skin, all your senses felled by sleep. The girl you were is gone. So you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/suppose-you-do-change-your-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suppose You Do Change Your Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6871],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6871"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 15:35:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}