{"id":3560,"date":"2025-02-05T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2025-01-08T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:54:44","slug":"jell-o-pockmarks-by-brennan-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2025\/02\/05\/jell-o-pockmarks-by-brennan-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jell-O Pockmarks&#8221; by Brennan Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><br>Red-dyed fingers dig into Jell-O.<br>Extract bits of marshmallow,<br>pineapple, cherry, walnut.<br>Leave gaping pockmarks<br>for other bits to gape at, cry over.<br>Pontificate <em>their time<\/em>.<br>Still pockmarks close over.<br>Jell-O demands that.<br>Missing bits are forgotten.<br>Where they were is forgotten.<br>Other mournful marshmallows,<br>cherry slices are plucked,<br>the spaces, spouses they leave<br>filled with shiny stickiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br><em>Brennan Thomas is a Professor of English at Saint Francis University, where she directs the campus&#8217;s writing center and teaches courses in creative nonfiction, fiction, novel writing, and Disney film studies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-dyed fingers dig into Jell-O.Extract bits of marshmallow,pineapple, cherry, walnut.Leave gaping pockmarksfor other bits to gape at, cry over.Pontificate their time.Still pockmarks close over.Jell-O demands that.Missing bits are forgotten.Where they were is forgotten.Other mournful marshmallows,cherry slices are plucked,the spaces, spouses they leavefilled with shiny stickiness. Brennan Thomas is a Professor of English at Saint Francis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2025\/02\/05\/jell-o-pockmarks-by-brennan-thomas\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-Vq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}