{"id":56740,"date":"2019-06-23T05:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56740"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:25:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:25:56","slug":"braced-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/braced-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Braced For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braced For It<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wear my brace day and night but nothing<\/p>\n<p>seems to help. Tore a tendon in my wrist.<\/p>\n<p>And life is not the same. Can\u2019t brush my hair<\/p>\n<p>or brush my teeth, or even tie my shoe. Can\u2019t<\/p>\n<p><em>push<\/em> or <em>pull<\/em> or <em>press<\/em> without pain. I wake<\/p>\n<p>up at night in searing pain waiting<\/p>\n<p>for it to heal. It <em>throbs <\/em>and <em>throbs <\/em>and <em>throbs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope it will heal, but when it doesn\u2019t,<\/p>\n<p>I say a prayer. Ask for healing. Go to mass,<\/p>\n<p>lay their hands on my skin, trace their fingers<\/p>\n<p>on my bones, and make a wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braced For It &nbsp; I wear my brace day and night but nothing seems to help. Tore a tendon in my wrist. And life is not the same. Can\u2019t brush my hair or brush my teeth, or even tie my shoe. Can\u2019t push or pull&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56740","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56795,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56740\/revisions\/56795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}