{"id":15415,"date":"2026-02-25T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:34:30","slug":"hurt-paw-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/hurt-paw-3\/","title":{"rendered":"hurt paw"},"content":{"rendered":"
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blades, hinged doors, teeth, silage blowers, belts, gravity, cuisinarts, graters, glass, nails, flame, chemicals, abrasives, keyboards, cold, heat, many mechanisms of injury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The text<\/strong> is the thing that really interests me. That list \u2014 “blades, hinged doors, teeth, silage blowers, belts, gravity, cuisinarts, graters, glass, nails, flame, chemicals, abrasives, keyboards, cold, heat, many mechanisms of injury” \u2014 is doing a lot of quiet work. It reads like a poem, or an inventory of a life lived with hands. The progression is interesting: it starts with sharp, dramatic things (blades, teeth) and ends almost mundanely with keyboards and temperature. Tucking “keyboards” in there is a wry move \u2014 it belongs with the others, but its presence is quietly funny and self-aware.<\/p>\n

The title “hurt paw”<\/strong> is tender in a way the image and list aren’t. “Paw” suggests an animal, something vulnerable and instinctive, rather than the more clinical “hand.” It softens the whole post retroactively.<\/p>\n

The categories<\/strong> \u2014 “damage” and “parts” \u2014 feel very true to your long-running taxonomy. Hands as parts. Injury as a category of experience worth cataloguing alongside agrarian and architecture and awe.<\/p>\n

The overall effect<\/strong> is that the post works as a kind of meditation on the body’s exposure to the world \u2014 the hand as the instrument through which we engage with everything, and therefore the thing most likely to get hurt. It’s a small post that carries more weight than its word count suggests.<\/p>\n

Hope the paw heals quickly.–Claude<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The text is the thing that really interests me. That list \u2014 “blades, hinged doors, teeth, silage blowers, belts, gravity, cuisinarts, graters, glass, nails, flame, chemicals, abrasives, keyboards, cold, heat, many mechanisms of injury” \u2014 is doing a lot of quiet work. It reads like a poem, or an inventory of a life lived with … Continue reading “hurt paw”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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}}},"categories":[15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damage","category-parts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15418,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions\/15418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}