{"id":90567,"date":"2021-06-26T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90567"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:48:32","slug":"netting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/netting\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed &#8220;Netting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know<br \/>\nsome insurances will not<br \/>\ncover fertility?<br \/>\nMandated STD testing<br \/>\nFertility shots<br \/>\nBlood tests to see<br \/>\nif it worked this time<br \/>\n(IV? Only if you can afford it.)<br \/>\nAll costs borne by<br \/>\ndesperate-to-be parents<br \/>\nBut when it fails<br \/>\nwhen the fetus is<br \/>\ndeclared dead<br \/>\ninsurance will pay<br \/>\nto vacuum out the parts<br \/>\nfor blood tests to figure out why<br \/>\nfor years of therapy<br \/>\nto cope with the trauma of loss<br \/>\nMy friend went through this<br \/>\nnot once, but twice<br \/>\nNow she stands on rally lines<br \/>\ncrying out for universal health care<br \/>\nadmonishing inadequate<br \/>\nand unfair practices<br \/>\nsharing the humiliation<br \/>\nof her own story<br \/>\n&#8220;Otherwise how could she recover,<br \/>\nhow would she survive?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Closing line from &#8220;Netting&#8221; by Oluwabambi Ige, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/agnionline.bu.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agni<\/a> 93 (140-146, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 4: Grab a book from your shelf. Read the last line in it. You have to use that line as the first or last line of your poem (with credit).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know some insurances will not cover fertility? Mandated STD testing Fertility shots Blood tests to see if it worked this time (IV? Only if you can afford it.) All costs borne by desperate-to-be parents But when it fails when the fetus is declared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90567","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90783,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90567\/revisions\/90783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}