{"id":3011,"date":"2024-04-10T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:18:43","slug":"belly-of-the-whale-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"Belly of the Whale, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belly of the Whale<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Innocent the VIII drank the blood<br \/>\nof three ten-year olds to attain everlasting<br \/>\nlife. He had slaves nurse him to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The one-to-one correspondences<br \/>\nof letter to spirit mean nothing when children<br \/>\ndie that way, when women are used that way.<\/p>\n<p>The great breath of the universe keeps no clay vessels<br \/>\nassembled for long. And when the angel came,<br \/>\nthe pope, and those who sat watching by his bedside,<\/p>\n<p>frantically waved their thin ribbons of faith, like krill<br \/>\nwhipping their antenna to avoid the lunging whale&#8211;sifting<br \/>\nthem into its dark, eternal belly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belly of the Whale by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Pope Innocent the VIII drank the blood of three ten-year olds to attain everlasting life. He had slaves nurse him to sleep. The one-to-one correspondences of letter to spirit mean nothing when children die that way, when women are used that way. The great breath of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}