{"id":8899,"date":"2024-11-15T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8899"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:44:44","slug":"autopsy-of-a-relationship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8899","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy of a Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Sydney Wagner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>I. Suburban Coffin<br><\/em><br>My skeletons hide<br>deep within my coat closet.<br>I wish to exhume.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>II. Dead on Arrival<br><br><\/em>Scalpel slices skin<br>This new body lacks a heart.<br>And yet, it still beats.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>III. Autopsy<br><br><\/em>Name: Unimportant.<br>Age: It was too long ago.<br>Type: Clearly not mine.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>IV. Handsaw<br><br><\/em>I break down the ribs<br>and hope to see flashing red.<br>Hearts won\u2019t bleed for me.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>V. The Anthropologist<br><br><\/em>Winter has frozen<br>the blood in my veins, and I<br>yearn to be exhumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>SYDNEY WAGNER<\/strong>\u00a0(she\/her) loves writing, her cats, and doing anything to keep from thinking. She particularly loves writing things down on Post-It notes and then forgetting about them. She doesn\u2019t use it often, but you can find her @sydwagner02 on Twitter, or working on her own literary magazine,\u00a0<em>On Gaia Lit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Wagner I. Suburban CoffinMy skeletons hidedeep within my coat closet.I wish to exhume. II. Dead on Arrival Scalpel slices skinThis new body lacks a heart.And yet, it still beats. III. Autopsy Name: Unimportant.Age: It was too long ago.Type: Clearly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8894,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2jx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8899","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=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8899\/revisions\/8911"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}