{"id":45299,"date":"2019-06-15T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=45299"},"modified":"2019-06-15T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:35:44","slug":"death-stares-me-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/death-stares-me-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Stares Me in the Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dad struggles: his chest rising and falling, inhaling and exhaling,<br \/>\nFighting since 4 p.m. yesterday, almost rhythmically flailing,<br \/>\n18 hours off the respirator, he has fought, struggled, and heaved.<br \/>\nThey said he would quickly pass painlessly; they can\u2019t be believed.<br \/>\nPain unrelieved by a morphine drip, Mother\u2019s eyes speak to me.<br \/>\nThey said that hospice patients toward the end feel little pain,<br \/>\nThat even with heroic measures, she will have nothing to gain.<br \/>\nThey can\u2019t be believed, or else fear\u2019s stench they misconceive.<br \/>\nLooking death in the face, everyone blinks, yet wants to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad struggles: his chest rising and falling, inhaling and exhaling, Fighting since 4 p.m. yesterday, almost rhythmically flailing, 18 hours off the respirator, he has fought, struggled, and heaved. They said he would quickly pass painlessly; they can\u2019t be believed. Pain unrelieved by a morphine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45299","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45300,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45299\/revisions\/45300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}