{"id":36501,"date":"2017-08-05T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36501"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:55:41","slug":"just-before-the-inflection-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/just-before-the-inflection-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Before the Inflection Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a moment<br \/>\nwhen time seems perched<br \/>\nbefore lifting off again<br \/>\nlike a restless chickadee<\/p>\n<p>You know it will fly soon<br \/>\nbut seeing its beauty,<br \/>\nthough common,<br \/>\nis delicious, nevertheless<\/p>\n<p>4 am on call in the hospital<br \/>\nis that time for me<br \/>\nwhere fatigue disappears<br \/>\nand I am awash in clarity<\/p>\n<p>In that moment, like between breaths,<br \/>\nthat forbidding place is transformed into a peaceful<br \/>\nand comforting house outside<br \/>\nof yesterday and today<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t last long<br \/>\nas if someone remembered<br \/>\nto hit the advance button<br \/>\nand we need to catch up to meet the dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a moment when time seems perched before lifting off again like a restless chickadee You know it will fly soon but seeing its beauty, though common, is delicious, nevertheless 4 am on call in the hospital is that time for me where fatigue&#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-36501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501","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=36501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36976,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36501\/revisions\/36976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}