{"id":56918,"date":"2019-06-23T05:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56918"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:53:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:53:59","slug":"hospital-time-hour-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hospital-time-hour-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Time (Hour 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year-old shivers unbeknownst<br \/>\nto what is causing his body to spasm involuntarily.<br \/>\nThe horrors of the sad, clown-faced parents<br \/>\nexhausted, humorless, their internalized torture<br \/>\nexudes an aura that suffocates the pale, tremored<br \/>\nwaters of the hospital room.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting alone in shadowed corners<br \/>\nfeeling the weight of a marriage dissolve<br \/>\nas worry for our small child lingers over<br \/>\nthe dull cadence of a heart monitor\u2019s finite calculations.<br \/>\nWaiting to hear but nothing is ever promised.<br \/>\nThe sway of information, up and down,<br \/>\nwe cling to any bit of hope offered.<br \/>\nBargaining the entire world away to save one life<br \/>\nto see you safe&#8230;<br \/>\nour child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year-old shivers unbeknownst to what is causing his body to spasm involuntarily. The horrors of the sad, clown-faced parents exhausted, humorless, their internalized torture exudes an aura that suffocates the pale, tremored waters of the hospital room. Sitting alone in shadowed corners feeling the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56918","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56919,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56918\/revisions\/56919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}