{"id":8585,"date":"2022-07-25T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8585"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:54:52","slug":"expectation-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8585","title":{"rendered":"Expectation Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Yash Seyedbagheri<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>every night,<br>I\u2019m in a car<br>and I\u2019m cruising faster and faster<br>the steering wheel is impotent<br>like rubber<br>and the horns blare<br>among all the exhaust<br>faster, faster, faster<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and I\u2019m at a party<br>where mustaches bear into me\u00a0<br>telling me what to say, how to do it,<br>but I have to go to the bathroom<br>one jiggle of a toilet handle<br>and the room explodes<br>with only the frowns left<br>in the dust-covered clouds<br>I can\u2019t even flush\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YASH SEYEDBAGHERI\u00a0<\/strong>is a graduate of Colorado State University&#8217;s MFA fiction program. His stories, &#8220;Soon,\u201d \u201cHow To Be A Good Episcopalian,\u201d \u201cTales From A Communion Line,\u201d and \u201cCommunity Time,\u201d have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash\u2019s work has been published in\u00a0<em>SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Ariel Chart,<\/em>\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yash Seyedbagheri every night,I\u2019m in a carand I\u2019m cruising faster and fasterthe steering wheel is impotentlike rubberand the horns blareamong all the exhaustfaster, faster, faster and I\u2019m at a partywhere mustaches bear into me\u00a0telling me what to say, how to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8583,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2et","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8585\/revisions\/8592"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}