{"id":308,"date":"2013-05-14T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=308"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:54:33","slug":"geographical-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/geographical-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographical Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, my friend said, <em>I have a geographical tongue \u2013<\/em><br \/>\nand opened wide to let me examine<\/p>\n<p>a map cracked deep into pink sponge, roads<br \/>\nlaid out in the whale-belly of her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, my fingers would go numb, turn white.<br \/>\nI rubbed them like I was referring to money or playing castanets. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The doctor said hers was a slight<br \/>\nanomaly, but mine meant a lifetime of thumbing along the road.<\/p>\n<p>We were eight years old. So we climbed<br \/>\nthe nearest tree and sat under the rib cage of sky.<\/p>\n<p>She with the map<br \/>\nand I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, my friend said, I have a geographical tongue \u2013 and opened wide to let me examine a map cracked deep into pink sponge, roads laid out in the whale-belly of her mouth. At the same time, my fingers would go numb, turn white. I rubbed them like I was referring to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/geographical-tongue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geographical Tongue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6875],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6875"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 06:50:28","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\/308","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\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}