{"id":206,"date":"2025-03-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:47:55","slug":"the-only-thing-that-gets-me-through-the-day-is-my-vhs-copy-of-space-jam-by-a-j-flanigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing That Gets Me Through the Day is My VHS Copy of Space Jam by a.j. Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Only Thing That Gets Me Through the Day is My VHS Copy of Space Jam<\/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\">Speaking ruins the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Built-up romanticism fades<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">behind the veneer put on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by cordiality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t make friends uncomfortable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with honesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spout, please, a practiced<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">version of yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hide behind a shell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">too sad to ever admit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">breaking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">while fake-smiling until<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the cows come home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cows, of course, aren&#8217;t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">intelligent enough to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">understand why your<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">scowls aren&#8217;t meant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to be off-putting, that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">they&#8217;re just your face.<\/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>Speaking ruins the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Built-up romanticism fades<\/p>\n<p>behind the veneer put on<\/p>\n<p>by cordiality.<\/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-206","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\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}