{"id":680,"date":"2016-10-18T21:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/?p=680"},"modified":"2016-10-18T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:17:59","slug":"walking-teeth-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/2016\/10\/18\/walking-teeth-first\/","title":{"rendered":"walking teeth-first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smiling, you glide<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Down the stairwell<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Onto the frigid tile<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It reminds you of her<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhy? Why do you do that? <\/span><b>GET OUT!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You acknowledge<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You breathe<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You continue<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They love to watch you<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To gawk<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their mouths drivel with desire<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A woman passes you<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The smell of J\u2019adore<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transports you out of this place<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Into a dream<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You hit the ground running<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An end is inevitable,<br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are on your heels<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Close at hand<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They cannot be satiated<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smiling still, showing teeth<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And gums<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You quicken the pace to escape<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He comes. At night he comes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">They all come<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They gawk<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They cannot be satiated<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smiling, you glide Down the stairwell Onto the frigid tile It reminds you of her \u201cWhy? Why do you do that? GET OUT!\u201d You acknowledge You breathe You continue They love to watch you To gawk Their mouths drivel with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/2016\/10\/18\/walking-teeth-first\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}