{"id":236,"date":"2019-03-07T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=236"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:25:10","slug":"wow-another-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/wow-another-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow Another Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desiree Dallagiacomo released her book &#8220;Sink&#8221; yesterday, and this poem appeared, and has always been one of my favorites. She writes the poem from the view of her thighs, titling it &#8220;Thighs Say.&#8221; This I believe is an interesting take&#8230;if your thighs could speak, what would they say? How would they feel and operate from their world view? She uses humor and relateable statements to get her point across, such as when she talks about ice cream and stretch marks, but also ties in sexual harassment when discussing men on street corners, parking garages, and in Walgreens while buying tampons to depict the sexualization that comes with not only being a woman, but being a bigger woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"792\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aiTFZtThmEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desiree Dallagiacomo released her book &#8220;Sink&#8221; yesterday, and this poem appeared, and has always been one of my favorites. She writes the poem from the view of her thighs, titling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/wow-another-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wow Another Poem<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}