{"id":107538,"date":"2022-06-25T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107538"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:11:38","slug":"water-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/water-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think about it<br \/>\nwhile I\u2019m at work<br \/>\nabout slowly dipping myself<br \/>\ninto the hot steamy basin<br \/>\nfeeling my body submerged<br \/>\nreleasing the tension<br \/>\nfrom the day<br \/>\nfrom my aching throbbing self<br \/>\nbut I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I tell patients all day long<br \/>\nat the chronic pain clinic<br \/>\nto relax those muscles<br \/>\nto free the spasms that envelope them<br \/>\nto take a break  from the pain<br \/>\nfind some respite<br \/>\nfor just a little while<br \/>\nbut I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Release your mind, I say<br \/>\nsoothe the body<br \/>\nfree the spirit.<br \/>\nI tell them the prolonged<br \/>\npain response<br \/>\nis like pouring gasoline<br \/>\non a fire<br \/>\nto care for themselves<br \/>\nfind the energy to<br \/>\nchange their routines<br \/>\nbut I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think about it while I\u2019m at work about slowly dipping myself into the hot steamy basin feeling my body submerged releasing the tension from the day from my aching throbbing self but I don\u2019t. I tell patients all day long at the chronic pain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107547,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107538\/revisions\/107547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}