{"id":684,"date":"2006-10-25T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T23:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2006\/10\/25\/girl-in-a-library\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T23:34:27","slug":"girl-in-a-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/girl-in-a-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl in a Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image686\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2006\/10\/zeppo.jpg\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"zeppo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A nifty poem by Gail Mazur appears on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=176180\">PoetryFoundation.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EXCERPT<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to find my way back to her,<br \/>\nto help her, to grab her hand, pull her<br \/>\nup from the wooden floor of the stacks<br \/>\nwhere she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reading accounts of the hatchet<br \/>\nmurders of Lizzie Borden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harsh parents<br \/>\nas if she could learn something about<br \/>\nlife if she knew all the cuts and slashes;<\/p>\n<p>her essay on Wordsworth or Keats<br \/>\nonly a knot in her belly, a faint pressure<br \/>\nat her temples. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pale, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s five years<br \/>\nbefore the first migraine, but the dreamy<br \/>\nflush has already drained from her face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gail Mazur, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Girl in a Library\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from <em>Zeppo&#8217;s First Wife: New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em> (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nifty poem by Gail Mazur appears on PoetryFoundation.org. EXCERPT I want to find my way back to her, to help her, to grab her hand, pull her up from the wooden floor of the stacks where she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reading accounts of the hatchet murders of Lizzie Borden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harsh parents as if she could learn something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borden-buzz","category-case-related","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}