{"id":2710,"date":"2015-04-16T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2015-04-17T02:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T02:23:13","slug":"hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/hiroshima\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flash announces the coming pain<br \/>\nIn a language unknown.<br \/>\nA kiss of air<br \/>\nKnocks her breath right out,<br \/>\nExpelled so forcefully<br \/>\nIt blasts a pocket in the flooding dust.<br \/>\nWith buckled spine<br \/>\nHer palms and knees<br \/>\nPush against the earth.<br \/>\nA wave of nuclei collide<br \/>\nInto the child\u2019s guiltless frame.<br \/>\nThe boxed-in windows<br \/>\nSuccumb to the quick violence.<br \/>\nWide, asymmetric shards pierce<br \/>\nA mother\u2019s body, trapped<br \/>\nBy broken beams<br \/>\nBrought down<br \/>\nBy broken atoms.<br \/>\nThe frictious heat begins to render her skin,<br \/>\nBut her body no longer feels the pain.<br \/>\nThe houses bloom<br \/>\nInto large, luminous poppies.<br \/>\nTireless tongues of flame<br \/>\nPerversely lick the city<br \/>\nClean of all its order.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Marcos Amen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flash announces the coming pain In a language unknown. A kiss of air Knocks her breath right out, Expelled so forcefully It blasts a pocket in the flooding dust. With buckled spine Her palms and knees Push against the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/hiroshima\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-edition","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}