{"id":1725,"date":"2018-06-11T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2018-06-13T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:17:25","slug":"astronaut-ice-cream-by-d-a-xiaolin-spires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Ice Cream by D.A. Xiaolin Spires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAXiaolinSpires_AstronautIceCream-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1726\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAXiaolinSpires_AstronautIceCream-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAXiaolinSpires_AstronautIceCream-768x511.png 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAXiaolinSpires_AstronautIceCream-1024x682.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nat age twelve<br \/>\ndad took me to<br \/>\nthe space museum<\/p>\n<p>i toppled planets<br \/>\ni stacked three feet high<br \/>\nmy dad squinted and\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\npulled his fingers<br \/>\ninto a circle and<br \/>\nlooked through&#8211;<br \/>\nlike a captain<br \/>\neyeing his\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\ntelescopic piece&#8211;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153a meter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said<br \/>\nbefore they fell<br \/>\npluto hitting his<br \/>\nnewly-waxed<br \/>\nshoes<\/p>\n<p>when we stopped<br \/>\nat the gift shop<br \/>\ni pointed at the\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nastronaut ice cream&#8211;<br \/>\nwhen he came\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom the register<br \/>\ni pulled at the\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nmetallic wrapping<br \/>\nit did not<br \/>\ngive way&#8211;<br \/>\nhe pulled out<br \/>\nhis swiss army<br \/>\nknife and ran a<br \/>\ncut through its\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\ncrinkling packaging<\/p>\n<p>strawberry-flavored<br \/>\ndry and brittle<br \/>\nit was nothing<br \/>\nlike ice cream<br \/>\non Earth<\/p>\n<p>(except it was<br \/>\non Earth)<\/p>\n<p>he never imagined<br \/>\nthat his curious girl<\/p>\n<p>fifteen years later<br \/>\nwould be squeezed<br \/>\ninto metal packaging<br \/>\nstubborn and\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nresisting tearing&#8211;<br \/>\ntough and obnoxious<br \/>\nonly a laceration<br \/>\nfrom a passing\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nmicrometeorite<br \/>\nreleased the<\/p>\n<p>dry and brittle<br \/>\nflesh within<\/p>\n<h6>image by the poet<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at age twelve dad took me to the space museum i toppled planets i stacked three feet high my dad squinted and\u00c2\u00a0 pulled his fingers into a circle and looked through&#8211; like a captain eyeing his\u00c2\u00a0 telescopic piece&#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a meter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said before they fell pluto hitting his newly-waxed shoes when we stopped at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}