{"id":5377,"date":"2012-06-03T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2015-02-22T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:58:12","slug":"rescued-again-by-flannery-oconnors-prose-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2012\/06\/rescued-again-by-flannery-oconnors-prose-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Again by Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s Prose Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some prose is really poetry, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where you come from is gone,<br \/>\nwhere you thought you were going to<br \/>\nnever was there,<br \/>\nand where you are is no good<br \/>\nunless you can get away from it.<br \/>\nWhere is there a place for you to be?<br \/>\nNo place.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing outside you<br \/>\ncan give you any place, he said.<br \/>\nYou needn&#8217;t look at the sky<br \/>\nbecause it&#8217;s not going to open up<br \/>\nand show no place behind it.<br \/>\nYou needn&#8217;t to search<br \/>\nfor any hole in the ground<br \/>\nto look through into somewhere else.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t go neither forwards nor backwards<br \/>\ninto your daddy&#8217;s time<br \/>\nnor your children&#8217;s if you have them. <\/p>\n<p>In yourself right now<br \/>\nis all the place you&#8217;ve got. <\/p>\n<p>If there was any Fall, look there,<br \/>\nif there was any Redemption, look there,<br \/>\nand if you expect any Judgment, look there,<br \/>\nbecause they all three<br \/>\nwill have to be<br \/>\nin your time and your body<br \/>\nand where in your time and your body<br \/>\ncan they be?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>~ Flannery O&#8217;Connor, Wise Blood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=virushead-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0940450372&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some prose is really poetry, isn&#8217;t it? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place. Nothing outside you can give you any place, he said. You needn&#8217;t look at the sky because it&#8217;s not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn&#8217;t to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2012\/06\/rescued-again-by-flannery-oconnors-prose-poetry\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,27],"tags":[6006,6008,6009,6007],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-religion","category-virushead","tag-flannery-oconnor","tag-place","tag-self","tag-wise-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5756,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}