{"id":1096,"date":"2023-02-14T07:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:12:43","slug":"the-seeds-that-we-bury-the-fields-that-they-reap-by-mike-mcclelland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"The Seeds That We Bury, the Fields That They Reap by Mike McClelland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cHow many bones can you fit into a hole full of oil?\u201d Ben asks.<br>\u201cKeep going until see you white,\u201d I tell him.<br>Ben\u2019s wheelbarrowing bones into oil pits and I\u2019m seven poles into building a fence.<br>They came here&#8211;they came&nbsp;<em>back<\/em>&#8211;for meat and blood. And oil.&nbsp;<br>\u201cOil sends them into a frenzy,\u201d I holler to Ben. \u201cThey\u2019ll swallow it all before they know what\u2019s in there.\u201d<br>They can\u2019t digest bone. They suck a man down, snake-like, and hork out his skeleton. Too many bones, they choke.&nbsp;<br>So we\u2019re going to choke \u2018em up and fence \u2018em in.<br>\u201cFreddy,\u201d Ben says, and I spin.<br>His mouth. On mine.&nbsp;<br>These days, the first one you kiss is usually the last.&nbsp;<br>I\u2019m glad it\u2019s him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Like Sharon Stone and the zipper, Dr. Mike McClelland is originally from Meadville, Pennsylvania. He, also like Sharon Stone and the zipper, is intricately beautiful in close-up and alarmingly symmetrical from a distance. Mike has lived on five different continents but now resides in eastern Illinois with his husband, two sons, and a menagerie of rescue dogs. He teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. Find him online at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/magicmikewrites.com\/\">magicmikewrites.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cHow many bones can you fit into a hole full of oil?\u201d Ben asks.\u201cKeep going until see you white,\u201d I tell him.Ben\u2019s wheelbarrowing bones into <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1096\" title=\"The Seeds That We Bury, the Fields That They Reap by Mike McClelland\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}