{"id":2982,"date":"2023-04-27T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=2982"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T19:55:55","slug":"the-question-remains-by-abigail-dembo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/the-question-remains-by-abigail-dembo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Question Remains&#8221; by Abigail Dembo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Is something more frightening coming?\nThe silence in the kitchen says, yes.\nHeaven is the hole in your chest.\nThe teapot has red eyes. Beware\nof anesthetic; you\nthrow the bad dogs raw meat.\nThe fortune-tellers have spoken,\nlevitated the table, moved\nthe green eyes in the painting \nof the dead dowager on the wall.\nOf course, there is no escape.\nNot in the mirror, though the mirror\nis a friendly thing. Always, in its way,\ntried to warn you. There is no\nskirt large enough to hide behind.\nUnder the grass, something\nis singing, wake up.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abigail Dembo<\/strong> lives in Berkeley, California. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Laurel Review, RHINO, The Midwest Quarterly, The Main Street Rag, and other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is something more frightening coming? The silence in the kitchen says, yes. Heaven is the hole in your chest. The teapot has red eyes. Beware of anesthetic; you throw the bad dogs raw meat. The fortune-tellers have spoken, levitated the table, moved the green eyes in the painting of the dead dowager on the wall. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/the-question-remains-by-abigail-dembo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Question Remains&#8221; by Abigail Dembo&#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-2982","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2982","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=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}