{"id":1773,"date":"2022-02-23T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2023-06-24T01:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T01:09:38","slug":"we-are-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/we-are-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"We are Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2021 Winter Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">We are Sand\nLizzie Van Buren, '22\n\nI could play forever in the sand that made us.\nThe dunes swept like dust into our eyes and lips. Sand\nOut of it, wet, came the drip-castles and mud pies\nWhere we taught each other how to create everything out of nothing.\n\nThe dunes swept like dust into our eyes and lips. Sand\nAngels that left an imprint of our small sipid bodies in the place\nWhere we taught each other how to create everything out of nothing.\nThe sea called our names and we answered it, becoming dolphins. We are\n\nAngels that leave an imprint of our small sipid bodies in the place\nWhere we become ourselves, our Heaven on Earth.\nThe sea called our names and we answered it, becoming dolphins. We are\nAll of us merpeople. The ocean salt runs clean in our veins. We are\n\nWhere we become ourselves, our Heaven on Earth\nIs where all of us are united. It takes a village to raise a child. We are\nAll of us merpeople. The ocean salt runs clean in our veins. We are\nAll of us that child, and all of us the parent. Life\n\nIs where all of us are united. It takes a village to raise a child. We are sand.\nOut of it, wet, came the drip-castles and mud pies.\nAll of us that child, and all of us the parent. Life.\nI could play forever in the sand that made us.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzie Van Buren, &#8217;22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}