{"id":87655,"date":"2021-06-26T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87655"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:34:46","slug":"ending-vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ending-vertigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending Vertigo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->The call at 2:00am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, can you come and get me?<\/p>\n<p>I need to go to the hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a way to start my morning.<\/p>\n<p>I spin out of bed slip on my sandals<\/p>\n<p>I stumble to the car.<\/p>\n<p>Things are spinning out of control.<br \/>\nI pick up my son and drive him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Will this night ever end?<\/p>\n<p>Now my mind is swirling?<\/p>\n<p>I search to find the words I let them spin and spin in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 7 o\u2019clock. How the hours have spun away.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor returns.<br \/>\n&#8220;It\u2019s vertigo,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>I drive my son home and\u2014<\/p>\n<p>carefully avoid every roundabout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87655","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90194,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87655\/revisions\/90194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}