{"id":1766,"date":"2026-05-15T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:39:33","slug":"while-everything-else-was-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/15\/while-everything-else-was-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"While Everything Else Was Falling Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen<br \/>\nyears ago now, the L train came clanking by<br \/>\nwhere someone had fat-Sharpied a black heart<br \/>\non the yellow pillar you leaned on during a bleak day<br \/>\n(brittle and no notes from anyone you crushed upon).<br \/>\nAbove ground, the spring was the saddest one<br \/>\n(doing work, but also none). What were you wearing?<br \/>\nSomething hopeful to show the world you hoped?<br \/>\nA tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce<br \/>\n<em>churro<\/em>. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept<br \/>\nrepeating churro while eating a churro. How to say<br \/>\nthis made you want to live? No hand to hold<br \/>\nstill there it was: someone giving someone comfort<br \/>\nand someone memorizing hard how to ask for it again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/1625112\/while-everything-else-was-falling-apart\">While Everything Else Was Falling Apart<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ada_Lim%C3%B3n\">Ada Lim\u00f3n<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where someone had fat-Sharpied a black heart on the yellow pillar you leaned on during a bleak day (brittle and no notes from anyone you crushed upon). Above ground, the spring was the saddest one (doing work, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alleviivattua","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}