{"id":3022,"date":"2013-08-26T21:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3022"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:21:10","slug":"a-history-of-the-only-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/a-history-of-the-only-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of the Only War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-History-of-the-Only-War-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2888\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-History-of-the-Only-War-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"A History of the Only War Cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-History-of-the-Only-War-Cover.jpg 195w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-History-of-the-Only-War-Cover-146x225.jpg 146w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-History-of-the-Only-War-Cover-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 94 pages \u2022 14.95<br \/>\nISBN-10: \u00a01-884800-66-1<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=1884800661&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color-hover=\" #efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\"><\/pre>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>A History of the Only War<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Christopher Davis<\/h2>\n<p>TRADE<\/p>\n<p>1.<br \/>\nThis kid, in a convenience store, frowned on my fly, fingers moving<br \/>\nunder his zipper. I tried hardening my character. He seemed so thin.<\/p>\n<p>Perched cross-legged on the love hotel bed, he looks<br \/>\nvery thin. Money he says. So it\u2019s a trap.\u00a0<i>I\u2019m broke<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I say, offering up half of what the room cost.<br \/>\nHe just stares at my bill in the air. Pouting,<\/p>\n<p>whispering something about rice, he shows<br \/>\nhis empty wallet. So he\u2019s a hungry whore.<\/p>\n<p>Behind his head, beyond the window,<br \/>\na neon crucifix flickers, shorting out.<\/p>\n<p>2.<br \/>\nIn a landscape architect\u2019s pickup,<br \/>\nworkers squat around a succulent,<\/p>\n<p>their uniforms the same green as the elephant-ear leaves<br \/>\nhiding their hands. Twilight smells of rambutan, durian,<\/p>\n<p>that acrid-sweet perfume. I\u2019ll buy each boy a soft drink,<br \/>\ngreen, cold, as sweet as it could be, my fi ngers fondling<\/p>\n<p>their harps, their humming, nervous ribcages, tracing<br \/>\non a notebook page the outline of my left hand, tips<\/p>\n<p>of the forefi nger and thumb joined, gesturing<br \/>\nokay, the feeling body showing, never telling.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/christopher-davis\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 94 pages \u2022 14.95 ISBN-10: \u00a01-884800-66-1 Add to Cart [\/column] A History of the Only War Christopher Davis TRADE 1. This kid, in a convenience store, frowned on my fly, fingers moving under his zipper. I tried hardening my character. He seemed so thin. Perched cross-legged on the love hotel bed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18293,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3022\/revisions\/18293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}