{"id":34876,"date":"2017-08-05T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34876"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:00:10","slug":"visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hand snaking through<br \/>the wind flowing through the car window<br \/>Traffic has been light<br \/>Moving @75 up 75<br \/>The semis keeping to their lane<\/p>\n<p>Heading to another dr&apos;s visit in Atlanta. The local quack scared Crissee with his<br \/>stoned eyes, trembling hands<br \/>So on the road to Dr Schmidt <br \/>To get my bones to behave<br \/>I&apos;m 12, what do I know?<br \/>The new Super Mario Bros game looks good. Whistles. <\/p>\n<p>The cast will come off. The pins will come out. The cast gets put back on. <br \/>Good it was starting to stink. <br \/>So heavy.<br \/>Back on the road home<br \/>Every <br \/>Bump<br \/>Shake<br \/>Brake<br \/>Speed up<br \/>Slow down hits my knee with the same level of Ihatedoctors<\/p>\n<p>Weeks pass and it&apos;s time to hit 75 again<\/p>\n<p>Hand in the flowing wind, truckers wave to me. <\/p>\n<p>This time<br \/>The cast comes off<br \/>For good<\/p>\n<p>I don&apos;t recognize my own <br \/>leg. <br \/>It&apos;s still attached to me, I feel it but it&apos;s alien. <br \/>Purple bruises, black stitched half absorbed, streaks of gooey yellow iodine, two long red lines marking my flesh. <br \/>The pin holes <br \/>marked now with two stitches each mark the skin where they erupted my skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand snaking throughthe wind flowing through the car windowTraffic has been lightMoving @75 up 75The semis keeping to their lane Heading to another dr&apos;s visit in Atlanta. The local quack scared Crissee with hisstoned eyes, trembling handsSo on the road to Dr Schmidt To get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876","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\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35164,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions\/35164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}