{"id":204,"date":"2025-02-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=204"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:03:44","slug":"springfield-massachusetts-by-a-j-flanigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Springfield, Massachusetts by a.j. flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published 16\/09\/2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Springfield, Massachusetts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By A.J. Flanagan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domestic idealism is a funny thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, when I&#8217;m laying down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">at three in the morning, watching a movie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">instead of sleeping, or writing, or reading,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or, if I had passion, typing up and deleting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a message to some girl over and over again,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think about who I&#8217;d like to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fifteen years, wearing bifocals,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sitting cross-legged on a lounge chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with herbal tea, and maybe whiskey,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">am I holding someone in my arms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I have a cat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is that someone an adult, or a little me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d really like to take my son<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or daughter to the Basketball Hall of fame one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d like to tell them about who<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I looked up to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when I was their age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic idealism is a funny thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, when I&#8217;m laying down<\/p>\n<p>at three in the morning, watching a movie<\/p>\n<p>instead of sleeping, or writing, or reading,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}