{"id":2166,"date":"2023-06-10T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2024-01-25T00:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:10:54","slug":"it-starts-in-the-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/10\/it-starts-in-the-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"It Starts in the Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">It Starts in the Eyes\nMadie Phillips, '23\n\nFloating in seas of white,\nThey become heavy\nMarbles. The weight\nOf the world, of constant\nObservation, held\nWithin. And even the\nBluest become the most\nTurbulent of oceans; the\nDeepest of browns\nBecome the rockiest\nOf mountaintops.\n\nbut soon those\nellipses cannot\ncontain the weight\nanymore. it spreads\ndownward and begins\nits pollution, the marbles\ntoo heavy, exhausting\nthe foundation below\nas it turns to the ashy gray\nof crumbling cobble-\n                                  stones, the purple of a\n                                                        wilting iris.\n\nIt starts in the eyes,\nin the absorbers of\nhumanity and its\ntribulations, before\nengulfing the rest of the\nexterior: the slouching\nand the yawning and\nthe sighing. All before,\nfinally, it begins to\ntake over the soul.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madie Phillips, &#8217;23<\/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":[55,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"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=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}