{"id":1564,"date":"2021-04-24T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2021-04-24T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:00:57","slug":"harold-tripps-daughter-tells-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Harold Tripp\u2019s Daughter Tells a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Sometimes we hid under the beds when he got like that,\nhis anger raining down over the floorboards, hard kernels\nof hail, a storm that pushed through him every time he drank.\nWe knew nothing about the island then, how he lived on a boat,\npulled from his dying mother\u2019s arms, his bitterness reflected\nin blank spaces between buildings. I kept thinking he\u2019d get better,\ninstead he beat on us like the sea, as if we were rocks, the storm\nsinking all our ships. Him just whaling, whaling, and us never knowing\u00a0\nwhy\u2014our mother caught in the upstream current, bruised about\nmouth, nose, ribs aching from the momentum of his blows.\nWe grabbed at the bedposts, hoisted ourselves out the back windows,\nall the time no help for our hating him, no way to understand\nwhat the world had done to him, our pain like crows\u2019 shadows\nslipping across the shuddering back of the world.\n\n\nSpillway\nIssue 25   Summer 2017<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we hid under the beds when he got like that, his anger raining down over the floorboards, hard kernels of hail, a storm that pushed through him every time he drank. We knew nothing about the island then, how he lived on a boat, pulled from his dying mother\u2019s arms, his bitterness reflected in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harold Tripp\u2019s Daughter Tells a Story&#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-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}