{"id":84,"date":"2013-12-17T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:20:07","slug":"forrest-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2013\/12\/17\/forrest-gander\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Gander (Professor in Literary Arts at Brown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85\" alt=\"Forrest Gander Rock Memory\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/01\/20131217forrestGander.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/>\u00a0 Forrest Gander is a professor in Literary Arts at Brown. He shared the following Rock memory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember teaching a poetry course in the Rock in the basement on a day when Sawako Nakayasu, an MFA candidate, was giving a presentation. When I opened the door to the room\u2014the class in file behind me in the dark\u2014we saw, by the skanky light of the big basement window, Sawako Nakayasu, completely immobile, cellophaned face-up on the middle of the table in the center of the room like the victim in a horror movie. Everyone rushed in. A little hole had been punctured in the cellophane over her lips and through that hole, she began her presentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Forrest Gander is a professor in Literary Arts at Brown. He shared the following Rock memory: I remember teaching a poetry course in the Rock in the basement on a day when Sawako Nakayasu, an MFA candidate, was giving a presentation. When I opened the door to the room\u2014the class in file behind me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}