{"id":18371,"date":"2016-08-13T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:49:43","slug":"december-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/december-22\/","title":{"rendered":"December 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Above all, I remember your purple toes&#8211;<br \/>\na sign of the dead end you were approaching.<br \/>\nThe seasoned nurse lifted the sheets<br \/>\nand showed me your long suffering digits<br \/>\nthat used to bruise from toe shoes<br \/>\nin dance lessons in pink with ribbons.<br \/>\nSwollen and left behind, no longer required<br \/>\nto spin or point in first position.<\/p>\n<p>Sister, I should have stayed beside you.<br \/>\nBut your last anguish and your empty shoes<br \/>\nwere more than I could bear to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above all, I remember your purple toes&#8211; a sign of the dead end you were approaching. The seasoned nurse lifted the sheets and showed me your long suffering digits that used to bruise from toe shoes in dance lessons in pink with ribbons. Swollen and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18754,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions\/18754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}