{"id":51602,"date":"2019-06-22T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51602"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:30:31","slug":"every-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/every-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by her bedside<\/p>\n<p>Life ebbing away<\/p>\n<p>Her chest&#8211;rising, falling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heart slowing down<\/p>\n<p>Holding her hand;<\/p>\n<p>Prayers for peaceful passing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The monitor is beeping<\/p>\n<p>Time stands still;<\/p>\n<p>Her forehead relaxes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nurses nod their heads;<\/p>\n<p>Gone forever, now.<\/p>\n<p>Imagining her welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gathering my thoughts;<\/p>\n<p>Aching so intense&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>How to go on now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in, breathe out.<\/p>\n<p>Lungs full, lungs empty.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat, repeat, repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by her bedside Life ebbing away Her chest&#8211;rising, falling. &nbsp; Heart slowing down Holding her hand; Prayers for peaceful passing. &nbsp; The monitor is beeping Time stands still; Her forehead relaxes. &nbsp; Nurses nod their heads; Gone forever, now. Imagining her welcome. &nbsp; Gathering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51602","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\/1265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51675,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51602\/revisions\/51675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}