{"id":17554,"date":"2016-08-13T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17554"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:29:33","slug":"take-another-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/take-another-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Another Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wake up . . .<\/p>\n<p>Reset iPhone alarm;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s ten more minutes?<\/p>\n<p>Snuggle in . . .<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t sleep!<\/p>\n<p>Of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new?<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-age \u00a0. .<\/p>\n<p>Reach for the pill box;<\/p>\n<p>Safely by the bed.<\/p>\n<p>Morning, noon, evening and bed;<\/p>\n<p>One or two each time;<\/p>\n<p>Seven days equals . . .<\/p>\n<p>Seven pills a day.<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill.<\/p>\n<p>One for depleting Vitamin D . .<\/p>\n<p>Aw, to be a menopausal woman!<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill.<\/p>\n<p>The one for the reflux, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Was that with food or after?<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill.<\/p>\n<p>There is the blood pressure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Must always be aware;<\/p>\n<p>Do not miss a day . . .<\/p>\n<p>You can stroke out . . .<\/p>\n<p>or heart will attack.<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill.<\/p>\n<p>Anxiety in these changing times;<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill . . .<\/p>\n<p>To calm you . . .<\/p>\n<p>To ease the panic,<\/p>\n<p>lying inside your adrenals;<\/p>\n<p>or is it serotonin?<\/p>\n<p>No, wait . . .<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s a different pill!<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill.<\/p>\n<p>Important pills . .<\/p>\n<p>never miss . . .<\/p>\n<p>or take more.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what to do about the aches?<\/p>\n<p>Take another pill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake up . . . Reset iPhone alarm; What&#8217;s ten more minutes? Snuggle in . . . Can&#8217;t sleep! Of course&#8230; What&#8217;s new? Take another pill. Middle-age \u00a0. . Reach for the pill box; Safely by the bed. Morning, noon, evening and bed; One or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[1222,1349,1346,1345,1348,1347],"class_list":["post-17554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-aging","tag-blood-pressure","tag-medications","tag-menopause","tag-middle-aged","tag-pills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554","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\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17706,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions\/17706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}