{"id":590,"date":"2022-07-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2022-08-20T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:32:05","slug":"dead-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Dead Sprint by Evan Nicholls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The skeleton crossed the finish line and was halved at the waist. Exploded by a ribbon. Then the announcer cued a procession of rats to haul the bones away. &#8220;They hope to add body to the broth,&#8221; the announcer remarked. We handed each rat a water cup. The last, wearing the skull, we bathed in Gatorade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Evan Nicholls is a poet and collage artist from Virginia. His chapbook of poems and collages,\u00a0<\/em>Holy Smokes<em>, is available from Ghost City Press. Find more of his work at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/enicholls.com\/\">enicholls.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The skeleton crossed the finish line and was halved at the waist. Exploded by a ribbon. Then the announcer cued a procession of rats to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=590\" title=\"Dead Sprint by Evan Nicholls\">[&#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-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}