{"id":25944,"date":"2016-08-13T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25944"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:44:17","slug":"the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within us there is<br \/>\na highway,<br \/>\nits epicenter, the heart.<br \/>\nA natural pump,<br \/>\nmade of cardiac muscle.<br \/>\nBlood, the nutrient supplier<br \/>\nzips along this interstate of<br \/>\narteries and veins.<br \/>\nAs the cargo is emptied,<br \/>\nit returns to the heart,<br \/>\nentering the right atrium, where<br \/>\nit is pushed into the right ventricle,<br \/>\nthen it is hurried into the lungs<br \/>\nto be resupplied.<br \/>\nFrom the lungs, it is rushed<br \/>\ninto the left atrium, scurries<br \/>\ninto the left ventricle, where<br \/>\nit is then rocketed through the aorta,<br \/>\nto zip along the highway<br \/>\nfor the cargo to be emptied.<br \/>\nIf there is a traffic jam,<br \/>\nthe backup could affect the epicenter<br \/>\nand life can be lost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within us there is a highway, its epicenter, the heart. A natural pump, made of cardiac muscle. Blood, the nutrient supplier zips along this interstate of arteries and veins. As the cargo is emptied, it returns to the heart, entering the right atrium, where it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25999,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions\/25999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}