{"id":34770,"date":"2017-08-05T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34770"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:37:52","slug":"mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/mri\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It starts with an factual voice saying<br \/>\nto remain still no matter what.<br \/>\nIgnore the messaging of the sounds.<br \/>\nYou will travel far.<\/p>\n<p>Fog horns starts the journey<br \/>\nand I imagine a pleasant boat trip on a clear and warm day<br \/>\nwhen suddenly everything goes bad with<br \/>\nradiation exposure warnings blasting <\/p>\n<p>Wild electronic music pulses with<br \/>\nthe rhythm of hard driving pistons<br \/>\nappear as I must have somehow avoided the<br \/>\nnuclear disaster<\/p>\n<p>Soon I have landed with<br \/>\nthe reviving up of cars<br \/>\nand the jack hammers<br \/>\nof road construction<\/p>\n<p>There is a pause<br \/>\nperhaps a red light<br \/>\nas that voice reappears<br \/>\nto tell me good job but remain still <\/p>\n<p>The cacophony of sounds<br \/>\nmerge then separate and then<br \/>\nsequence through leaving<br \/>\nme disoriented as to land or sea<\/p>\n<p>Unable to think,<br \/>\nthe voice reappears to<br \/>\ntell me 5 minutes left<br \/>\nand to remain still <\/p>\n<p>I concentrate hard on counting<br \/>\nout 300 seconds as<br \/>\nI used to do in high school French<br \/>\nand hope the voice was not mistaken<\/p>\n<p>It ends with a silence<br \/>\nthen the voice<br \/>\nand I can&#8217;t be sure<br \/>\nof anything else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It starts with an factual voice saying to remain still no matter what. Ignore the messaging of the sounds. You will travel far. Fog horns starts the journey and I imagine a pleasant boat trip on a clear and warm day when suddenly everything goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34770","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34967,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34770\/revisions\/34967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}