{"id":38458,"date":"2017-08-05T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38458"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:23:24","slug":"sister-patricia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/sister-patricia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Patricia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sister Patricia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She had never run a marathon<\/p>\n<p>until she received word from<\/p>\n<p>her sister that her cancer was<\/p>\n<p>malignant. That changed her<\/p>\n<p>phone-call greeting from \u201cHi, Pat.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happening?\u201d to \u201cHi, Pat.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything I can do for you?<\/p>\n<p>How about lunch?\u201d Pat always<\/p>\n<p>replied, \u201cYes!\u201d When they exited<\/p>\n<p>the car to go to the luncheonette<\/p>\n<p>Pat lagged a bit behind, bent over<\/p>\n<p>like a scalene triangle, but<\/p>\n<p>remained game, despite her lack<\/p>\n<p>of appetite. Food smelled like<\/p>\n<p>shit and tasted like copper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow \u2018bout we split that check?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>she said, pulling out her purse,<\/p>\n<p>smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Patricia &nbsp; She had never run a marathon until she received word from her sister that her cancer was malignant. That changed her phone-call greeting from \u201cHi, Pat. What\u2019s happening?\u201d to \u201cHi, Pat. Is there anything I can do for you? How about lunch?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38458","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38488,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38458\/revisions\/38488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}