{"id":120,"date":"2024-08-28T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:24:03","slug":"short-talk-on-a-childs-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"short talk on a child&#8217;s tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(inspired by Anne Carson\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yalereview.org\/article\/carson-short-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">short talks<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valerie Solanas didn\u2019t want a son, but the men of this world are cruel and she was forced to have one anyway. Whenever she would look into her son\u2019s eyes with disdain, Solanas felt a dull pain throbbing in the corner of her mouth. She\u2019d lie to herself\u2014\u201cIt must be the caramel ice cream I had earlier.\u201d She\u2019d lie to herself over and over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, Solanas didn\u2019t know she was lying to herself\u2014she despised that sort of behavior. Lying was a man\u2019s job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Solanas couldn\u2019t have known about the ache in her mouth was that it was a scream, a cry, a wail. She still had a child\u2019s tooth in her mouth, and it was begging her to be a good mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(inspired by Anne Carson\u2019s&nbsp;short talks.) Valerie Solanas didn\u2019t want a son, but the men of this world are cruel and she was forced to have one anyway. Whenever she would look into her son\u2019s eyes with disdain, Solanas felt a dull pain throbbing in the corner of her mouth. She\u2019d lie to herself\u2014\u201cIt must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/outdoor92.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edenjuniper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}