{"id":203378,"date":"2014-07-02T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/02\/i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear-2\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:32:04","slug":"i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/02\/i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I swear to every heaven ever imagined,<br \/>\nif I hear one more dead-eyed hipster<br \/>\ntell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare <br \/>\nfrom the grave so he can tell them every reason<br \/>\nwhy he wishes he were born in a time where <br \/>\nhe could have a damn Gmail account. <br \/>\nThe day after I taught my mother <br \/>\nhow to send pictures over Iphone she texted <br \/>\nme a blurry image of our cocker spaniel ten times in a row.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t you dare try to tell me that that is not beautiful.<br \/>\nBut whatever, go ahead and choose to stay in<br \/>\nyour backwards-hoping-all-inclusive club<br \/>\nwhile the rest of us fall in love over Skype.<br \/>\nSend angry letters to state representatives, <br \/>\nas we record the years first sunrise so <br \/>\nwe can remember what beginning feels like when <br \/>\nwe are inches away from the trigger. <br \/>\nLock yourself away in your Antoinette castle<br \/>\nwhile we eat cake and tweet to the whole universe that we did. <br \/>\nHashtag you\u2019re a pretentious ass hole.<br \/>\nVan Gogh would have taken 20 selflies a day. <br \/>\nSylvia Plath would have texted her lovers <br \/>\nnothing but heart eyed emojis when she ran out of words.<br \/>\nAndy Warhol would have had the worlds weirdest Vine account, <br \/>\nand we all would have checked it every morning while we<br \/>\nSnap Chat our coffee orders to the people <br \/>\nwe wish were pressed against our lips instead of lattes. <br \/>\nThis life is spilling over with 85 year olds <br \/>\nrewatching JFK\u2019s assassination and <br \/>\n7 year olds teaching themselves guitar over Youtube videos. <br \/>\nNever again do I have to be afraid of forgetting<br \/>\nwhat my fathers voice sounds like. <br \/>\nNo longer must we sneak into our families phonebook<br \/>\nto look up an eating disorder hotline for our best friend.<br \/>\nNo more must I wonder what people in Australia sound like <br \/>\nor how grasshoppers procreate. <br \/>\nI will gleefully continue to take pictures of tulips<br \/>\nin public parks on my cellphone <br \/>\nand you will continue to scoff and that is okay. <br \/>\nBut I hope, I pray, that one day you will realize how blessed <br \/>\nyou are to be alive in a moment where you can google search<br \/>\nhow to say I love you in 164 different languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>b.e.fitzgerald <a href=\"http:\/\/befitzgeraldwriting.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">(Art is a Facebook status about your winter break.)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to every heaven ever imagined, if I hear one more dead-eyed hipster tell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare from the grave so he can tell them every reason why he wishes he were born in a time where he could have a damn Gmail account. The day after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/02\/i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,1602,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}