{"id":1539,"date":"2021-04-18T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:21:15","slug":"decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Birch trees, dragonflies and fishers live\nbeneath the same night sky as David\u00a0\nwhen the glass windshield in his pickup truck\u00a0\nbursts forth into the grass, shining like black ice,\u00a0\nlike black lace, tumbling with a speed almost equal\u00a0\nto the bullet that speeds through his brain, his upraised\narm dropping, not as fast, clumsy, his mouth emitting\u00a0\nan exclamation, not a word, not an apology, not even\u00a0\na sob, and it could be that lizards, moles, chipmunks\u00a0\nmoving in thickets freeze for a moment, it could be\nthat the owl cocks its wing, glides back to the safety\u00a0\nof a limb, the hulking blanket of night rumpled and shaken,\u00a0\nsmall noises pierced by a sharp blast, the constellation\u00a0\nof broken skull, not unknown beside the black water of the lake\u00a0\nduring that block of days in hunting season when orange-clad men\nroam the woods and the sun shudders across the sky,\u00a0\nwhen almost all the leaves have fallen or hang askew on twigs\u2014\u00a0\nhunters in pairs, in groups\u2014not like David sitting alone in his truck\nwho swallows the quiet like a snake swallowing its prey,\u00a0\njaw unhinged, muscles contracting, mouth fully open.\n\n\nThe Sow's Ear Review\nMay 2018<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birch trees, dragonflies and fishers live beneath the same night sky as David\u00a0 when the glass windshield in his pickup truck\u00a0 bursts forth into the grass, shining like black ice,\u00a0 like black lace, tumbling with a speed almost equal\u00a0 to the bullet that speeds through his brain, his upraised arm dropping, not as fast, clumsy, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Decision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}