Birthday<\/span><\/h2>\n That day y<\/span>ou tell yourself you can\u2019t fall out\u00a0<\/span>or down, Wendy Taylor Carlisle<\/strong> lives and writes in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and\u00a0<\/span>tries to ignore her state\u2019s politic<\/span>ians.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wendy Taylor Carlisle Birthday That day you tell yourself you can\u2019t fall out\u00a0or down, favored as you\u2019ve been by luck and the good opinion of your secretary and your kids until you notice your toes slue sidewise on your feet and nothing is on your mind after that but the lean ankles of girlhood and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[94],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/span>favored as you\u2019ve been by luck and the good opinion
\n<\/span>of your secretary and your kids until you notice
\n<\/span>your toes slue sidewise on your feet and nothing
\n<\/span>is on your mind after that but the lean ankles
\n<\/span>of girlhood and your knees which no longer genuflect
\n<\/span>easily toward the mountains you have yet to climb.<\/span><\/p>\n