{"id":1642,"date":"2013-03-13T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T05:26:05","slug":"you-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/you-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/about\/author-biographies\/\">Susan Gillan\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lost in the shopping mall<br \/>\nI stand at the color-coded map and discover<br \/>\nBellevue Square is not square at all.<br \/>\nLiars. It\u2019s a layer-cake rectangle.<br \/>\nYou Are Here, it says but how do They know<br \/>\nAnd will They know when I am no longer Here but There?<br \/>\nWill They know if I slink into Vicky\u2019s Secret<br \/>\nTo try on every pair of hot pink panties?<br \/>\nBikinis with soft white lace<br \/>\nHipsters flashing neon hearts<br \/>\nThongs with boa trim that snake into your crack.<br \/>\nAh, the Godiva store<br \/>\nFree samples of naked chocolate<br \/>\nOne per customer please<br \/>\nBut will They know if I take two<br \/>\nFrom the tray proffered by the black-haired woman<br \/>\nWith painted red lips wearing white-white?<br \/>\nAcross the way, genuine leather<br \/>\nWhere minimum-wage clerks in too-tight skirts are Coached<br \/>\nTo wordlessly insult me and my knockoff bag.<br \/>\nDo They know the baggage I carry?<br \/>\nWe are all knockoffs here,<br \/>\nLooking to purchase the panties and purses<br \/>\nThat will make us uniquely like somebody else.<br \/>\nSomebody famous,<br \/>\nSomebody rich,<br \/>\nSomebody important,<br \/>\nSomebody.<br \/>\nSomething to make us somebody,<br \/>\nTo make us whole at half price.<br \/>\nAnoint my head with oil from The Body Shop<br \/>\nAnd follow me to the Cheesecake Factory<br \/>\nWhere we will seek divine intervention<br \/>\nAgainst becoming fat old women<br \/>\nAnd split that piece of White Chocolate Caramel Macadamia Nut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Gillan\u00a0 Lost in the shopping mall I stand at the color-coded map and discover Bellevue Square is not square at all. Liars. It\u2019s a layer-cake rectangle. You Are Here, it says but how do They know And will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/you-are-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}