{"id":2211,"date":"2015-09-06T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:07:48","slug":"a-better-age-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2015\/09\/06\/a-better-age-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Age of Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cue the mourning doves and cathedral spires, a high white room and the same woman&#8217;s voice stuttering from the lectern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the conference even started, we&#8217;d gotten into an argument. Because there are other things that were exciting about the dinner party. No, not your lengthy defense of the lyric, or your friend&#8217;s various opinions on enjambment. What was really significant, I mean significant, was the way I&#8217;d jumped the fence to get there. You were frustrated by this, and at first, I couldn&#8217;t understand why the other guests were leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a few days before I realized you were right about everything. The breach of etiquette, the newly articulated boundaries. But when I turned to tell you, the lecture hall was empty, and you&#8217;d left your phone behind on the desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Gallaher &amp; Kristina Marie Darling<\/strong> were born in Portland and Tulsa. Their collaborations appear in <em>OmniVerse, Requited, diode,<\/em> and elsewhere. They currently live and write in rural Missouri while also taking frequent trips on the bullet train from Paris to Agen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue the mourning doves and cathedral spires, a high white room and the same woman&#8217;s voice stuttering from the lectern. Before the conference even started, we&#8217;d gotten into an argument. Because there are other things that were exciting about the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22070,22210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}