{"id":57255,"date":"2019-06-23T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57255"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:00:53","slug":"flying-while-pained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/flying-while-pained\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying while pained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHS to CLT. CLT to STL.<br \/>\nBaby steps aided by flexeril<br \/>\nand hydrocodone, backpack<br \/>\nweighted for counter balance.<br \/>\nI wait in line to pass through<br \/>\nsecurity, guzzle the remnants<br \/>\nof my Nalgene water lest they<br \/>\nmake me \u201cdispose of it.\u201d As if that small<br \/>\namount of water could bring down<br \/>\na plane. As if they could stop<br \/>\nit. Remove your shoes, laptops<br \/>\nin separate bins. Empty your pockets.<br \/>\nWe all have it memorized since 9\/11.<br \/>\nBoarding passes come on phones<br \/>\nnow. I\u2019ll bet no one predicted that.<br \/>\nBaby steps to the lectern. Baby<br \/>\nsteps through the line. Slowly,<br \/>\nslowly. Baby steps to Terminal B, to<br \/>\nthe gate. Courtesy check for my<br \/>\nrolling luggage? Yes Ma\u2019am. Solid<br \/>\ntip. Cool of flexeril rolls down.<br \/>\nCHS to CLT. CLT to STL.<br \/>\nThere and back again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHS to CLT. CLT to STL. Baby steps aided by flexeril and hydrocodone, backpack weighted for counter balance. I wait in line to pass through security, guzzle the remnants of my Nalgene water lest they make me \u201cdispose of it.\u201d As if that small amount&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57255","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57297,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57255\/revisions\/57297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}