{"id":5587,"date":"2025-04-24T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.comliterary.com\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2025-04-27T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T00:40:18","slug":"raise-every-voice-except-not-you-fat-boy-you-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/raise-every-voice-except-not-you-fat-boy-you-stink\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise Every Voice, Except Not You, Fat Boy, You Stink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Start in G, she said<br>standing before us on a plywood pedestal<br>no, that was a lectern, us on plywood<br>steps, no those are called risers &amp;<br>choir practice has begun.<br>How do I stand?<br>May I jam my hands into my hungry pockets<br>of worry, of embarrassment, of yet<br>another class to kill the time from<br>seven-thirty to eighteen years of age?<br>Deep breath, she says. Deep.<br>All boys here, unlucky you &amp;<br>wait for someone else to lead<br>because I don\u2019t know the song &amp;<br>I don\u2019t know how to diaphragm<br>breathe, how to rise to my pre-<br>pubescent range only boys have &amp;<br>no, I don\u2019t know, have no idea<br>where G is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start in G, she saidstanding before us on a plywood pedestalno, that was a lectern, us on plywoodsteps, no those are called risers &amp;choir practice has begun.How do I stand?May I jam my hands into my hungry pocketsof worry, of embarrassment, of yetanother class to kill the time fromseven-thirty to eighteen years of age?Deep breath, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[400],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-poetry","literary_contributors-stephens-travis"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}