{"id":2409,"date":"2023-06-25T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2023-06-25T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:28:06","slug":"no-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/no-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"No Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2016 Spring Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">No Answer\r\nCayla Dedrick, '16\r\n\r\nI don't have an answer\r\nIt's true that the person that you perceive\r\nIs different from what I've become, machinery\r\ngrinding together to form a hapless warmth\r\nSo distinct from the cool message\r\nthat was left\r\n\r\nWhat I am is what is left,\r\nforgetting to try to find an answer\r\nwithin the message\r\nthat I once perceived\r\nlooking up at that sky that lived on the warmth\r\nthat it stole; The cold that remains machine-like\r\n\r\nMakes it hard to be anything but a machine\r\nWhen all that's left\r\nis falsely described as warmth,\r\na wrongly interpreted answer\r\nthat's easier to perceive\r\nthan what that message\r\n\r\nis trying to tell you, messages\r\nare misleading, the answering machine\r\ncannot convey human perceptions\r\nwhen a voice, a few words, are left\r\nand, in spite of its name, there isn't an answer\r\nhidden in treacly warmth\r\n\r\nmelting in the sun, a warm\r\nfeeling engrained in messages\r\nleft so long that their answers\r\nhave faded, such that machines\r\nare the only ones left\r\nwho can perceive\r\n\r\nthe words that were never for human perception\r\nWe're too warm,\r\ntoo fragile to face the cold we've left\r\nin a single message\r\nThat cool voice, a machine\r\nholds no answer\r\n\r\nPerceptions makes it hard to find an answer\r\nAnd warmth is often lost on machines\r\n\"At the tone, please leave a message\"\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cayla Dedrick, &#8217;16<\/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":[34,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"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=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}