{"id":10807,"date":"2016-02-18T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2016-02-19T00:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:59:20","slug":"eileen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/eileen\/","title":{"rendered":"were you seeing a penis on your monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>poet eileen myles bought a house in marfa last year, and i met her at a party. a friend of mine was her literary agent in new york, so i was like, &#8220;oh! my friend was your literary agent!&#8221; and she was like, &#8220;what&#8217;s your friend&#8217;s name,&#8221; and i had had two glasses of wine, and am terrible at remembering names on the spot even when <em>not<\/em> tipsy, and couldn&#8217;t place my friend&#8217;s name (emily! it&#8217;s emily!) and i was like, &#8220;um&#8230;&#8221; and she was like, &#8220;huh. sounds like a good friend.&#8221; and that was our whole interaction. now when i see her i avert my eyes. cool. but this <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2016\/02\/eileen-myles-on-the-pain-of-waiting-for-love.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> is so good. (minus that dumb picture at the top.)<\/p>\n<p>and this is also quite good, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/17\/fashion\/eileen-myles-jill-soloway-girlfriend-transparent.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">ny times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms. Myles continued: \u201cGender is such a big issue today, but in so many micro ways. Here\u2019s an example. I wear my jeans low, and I continually get stopped at airports. The scans tell them I should be a man. The T.S.A. people call it a \u2018groin anomaly.\u2019 Can you believe that?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne screener woman literally said to me, \u2018Do you have a penis?\u2019 And I answered, \u2018Were you seeing a penis on your monitor?\u2019 And she said, \u2018I\u2019m asking you seriously: <em><em>Do you have a penis?<\/em><\/em>\u2019\u201d (Ms. Myles\u2019s answer: \u201cNot today.\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>poet eileen myles bought a house in marfa last year, and i met her at a party. a friend of mine was her literary agent in new york, so i was like, &#8220;oh! my friend was your literary agent!&#8221; and she was like, &#8220;what&#8217;s your friend&#8217;s name,&#8221; and i had had two glasses of wine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10863,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}