{"id":37,"date":"2018-04-04T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=37"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:57:27","slug":"nos-for-the-proper-modern-southern-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/nos-for-the-proper-modern-southern-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Nos for the Proper Modern Southern Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Heather Steadham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>donuts<br>Dr. Pepper<br>ice cream<br>bread<br><em>if it tastes good, spit it out,<br><\/em>my grandma said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>miniskirts<br>eyeliner<br>Spandex<br>flats<br><em>you can\u2019t catch a decent man<br><\/em><em>looking like that<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>glasses<br>bare face<br>naked nails<br>frowns<br><em>or do you want the boys to think<br>you\u2019ll always turn them down?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tattoos<br>piercings<br>hair of pink<br>or blue<br><em>if God had meant for those to happen<br>he\u2019d\u2019ve made them born on you<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>skipping Sundays<br>names in vain<br>rock &amp; roll<br>&amp; drinking wine<br><em>a Christian girl just trusts the Book<br>and not her fallen,&nbsp;wicked mind<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>smiling in public<br>speaking to strangers<br>laughing out loud<br><em>(just what kind of message are you trying to send, anyway?)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 9, 2017, pg. 43<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Steadham donutsDr. Pepperice creambreadif it tastes good, spit it out,my grandma said miniskirtseyelinerSpandexflatsyou can\u2019t catch a decent manlooking like that glassesbare facenaked nailsfrownsor do you want the boys to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}