{"id":12,"date":"2008-03-13T08:17:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-03-13T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:17:48","slug":"gitlin-horological-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Gitlin: Horological Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Horological Correspondence:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mission Missive from\u00c2\u00a0Count Eduardo<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

by Jason Gitlin<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

If your New Haven Mission clock<\/span><\/p>\n

strikes outta whack\/your skinny<\/p>\n

surgeon-fingered Father beneath<\/p>\n

the dial with a gigantic rubber<\/p>\n

band\/held the suspension spring\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

angled\/not my hands\/we will fix<\/p>\n

the strike\/Meshugina\/but I sent<\/p>\n

& restored an Ingraham movement<\/p>\n

good time keeper\/my last minute<\/p>\n

decision overcome by generosity<\/p>\n

the case could use some clarity\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

uncompleted\/spray satin lacquer<\/p>\n

90 lbs\/rub it\/quadruple \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aught\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

steel wool between applications<\/p>\n

Look how I handled the Ingraham\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

suspension spring\/the Dentist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

finesse\/I cannot write what you\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

ought know about clock handling\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

cut rubber bands & remove tacks \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

gimme a break\/the King of Spain \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

without a worthy collection\/you<\/p>\n

Hamtramck King\/realize\/truly am<\/p>\n

I Eduardo Zaz\/The Count of West\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bloomfield\/The Certified Master<\/p>\n

Clock Maker\/I wrote this letter<\/p>\n

without cuss words SHITSHITSHIT<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201cCount Down to September 25th 2007\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

10 months 19 days<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Horological Correspondence: The Mission Missive from\u00c2\u00a0Count Eduardo \u00c2\u00a0 by Jason Gitlin \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 If your New Haven Mission clock strikes outta whack\/your skinny surgeon-fingered Father beneath the dial with a gigantic rubber band\/held the suspension spring\u00c2\u00a0 angled\/not my hands\/we will fix the strike\/Meshugina\/but I sent & restored an Ingraham movement good time keeper\/my last minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}