{"id":2419,"date":"2021-01-31T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=2419"},"modified":"2021-02-01T03:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T03:37:33","slug":"the-pair-by-david-m-alper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/the-pair-by-david-m-alper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pair by David M. Alper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"2\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<div>a woman \/\/ who got off the subway \/\/ took a brisk half dozen steps \/\/ then turned around \/\/ realizing she had left \/\/ one of her gloves behind \/\/ the doors were about to close \/\/ she knew she wasn&#8217;t close enough \/\/ to run back and retrieve that glove \/\/ so she tossed the glove in her hand \/\/ back into the car \/\/ just before the doors closed \/\/ so whoever found it \/\/ would find the pair \/\/ not just a single glove \/\/ I hope things like that \/\/ balance out the karma \/\/ for all of us<\/div>\n<div class=\"endOfContent active\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"3\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"canvasWrapper\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>David M. Alper is a high school AP English teacher in New York City, residing in Manhattan. His work has appeared in&nbsp;<em>Star 82 Review, OPEN: Journal of Arts &amp; Letters, Sheila-Na-Gig online<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a woman \/\/ who got off the subway \/\/ took a brisk half dozen steps \/\/ then turned around \/\/ realizing she had left \/\/ one of her gloves behind \/\/ the doors were about to close \/\/ she knew she wasn&#8217;t close enough \/\/ to run back and retrieve that glove \/\/ so she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/the-pair-by-david-m-alper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pair by David M. Alper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}