{"id":36,"date":"2009-01-05T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-01-05T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T18:21:28","slug":"taylor-esl-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Taylor: ESL Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ESL DREAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Ed Taylor<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0In class the phrase is a fence.  Chalk&#8217;s a finger bone.  <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Gag on a new tongue in your mouth.  Your lips burn.  Bend over and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Over rows of class the blades whisper,  taking names.  <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">I am, we are, he she it is, they are:  you are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0There is a final test, one question:  <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Who do you think you are?  Prove it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL DREAM by Ed Taylor \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0In class the phrase is a fence. Chalk&#8217;s a finger bone. Gag on a new tongue in your mouth. Your lips burn. Bend over and learn. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Over rows of class the blades whisper, taking names. I am, we are, he she it [&hellip;]<\/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-36","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\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}