{"id":24412,"date":"2016-08-13T21:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24412"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:18:57","slug":"for-robbie-who-lost-an-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/for-robbie-who-lost-an-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"For Robbie, Who Lost an Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Robbie, Who Lost an Arm<\/p>\n<p>you used to lay your arm<br \/>\naround her<br \/>\namidst The Evil Dead, theater dates,<br \/>\nand everything Nicholas Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>you used to catch one-handed high school<br \/>\nwide-receiver. your knotted spear of elbow<br \/>\nthrust into my stomach mid-moshpit.<br \/>\nwe wrestled in sixth-grade and your half a foot difference<\/p>\n<p>pinned me to the sheets. your hand misspelled<br \/>\nuniversity essays, fingers forgetting grammar.<br \/>\ni can still see your old muscle, that sinew taut<br \/>\nunder athletic arm. i can still see it mirrored from the other<\/p>\n<p>and i forget the metal thinness and how it<br \/>\nconnects to your shoulder. i forget the pictures<br \/>\nof recovery. i don&#8217;t even know who we are anymore,<br \/>\nand more than just an appendage has lost its life, its function. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Robbie, Who Lost an Arm you used to lay your arm around her amidst The Evil Dead, theater dates, and everything Nicholas Sparks. you used to catch one-handed high school wide-receiver. your knotted spear of elbow thrust into my stomach mid-moshpit. we wrestled in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412","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\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25109,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412\/revisions\/25109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}