{"id":1037,"date":"2015-02-06T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:41:27","slug":"in-on-rats-and-tigers-lily-hoang-explores-the-zodiac-immigrant-experience-family-mourning-addiction-burgeoning-love-its-disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/in-on-rats-and-tigers-lily-hoang-explores-the-zodiac-immigrant-experience-family-mourning-addiction-burgeoning-love-its-disintegration\/","title":{"rendered":"In On Rats and Tigers, Lily Hoang explores the Zodiac, immigrant experience, family, mourning, addiction &#038; burgeoning love &#038; its disintegration."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An excerpt from Lily Hoang&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.essaypress.org\/ep-12\/\" target=\"_blank\">On Rats and Tigers<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">My essays all circle around certain characters: my dead sister; my heroin-addict motherless nephew Justin; Brandon, who I met the day my sister died, our love affair, our fun, the way he destroyed me; my parents, whom I destroy. I rarely include: my other nephew, Mason, the one who&#8217;s doing well; my brother, who has bought me fashion; I hate Karl but he finds his way into these essays too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My sister gave me a purple monkey. I can&#8217;t remember if this was before or after prison. I treasured it &#8211; but I never named it.<\/p>\n<p>Hate: a new emotion for me. I wish I hadn&#8217;t learned it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from Lily Hoang&#8217;s\u00a0On Rats and Tigers: My essays all circle around certain characters: my dead sister; my heroin-addict motherless nephew Justin; Brandon, who I met the day my sister died, our love affair, our fun, the way he destroyed me; my parents, whom I destroy. I rarely include: my other nephew, Mason, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essaypress.org\/squeezy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}