{"id":92990,"date":"2021-06-26T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92990"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:58","slug":"thats-not-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/thats-not-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 7\u2014\u201cnormal\u201d prompt)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s Not Normal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I woke him with the dreaded whisper,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s someone in the livingroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having no reason to doubt me,<\/p>\n<p>he leapt from dream-state to Dominant Male Protector inside of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Then I whispered, to warn him,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very tall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, hallucinating alien-like creatures in one\u2019s home is not supposed to be a side-effect of pain medication.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, my oncologist told me, \u201cThat\u2019s not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We both looked to my partner, \u201cHow\u2019s your blood pressure?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 7\u2014\u201cnormal\u201d prompt) &nbsp; That\u2019s Not Normal &nbsp; I woke him with the dreaded whisper, \u201cThere\u2019s someone in the livingroom.\u201d Having no reason to doubt me, he leapt from dream-state to Dominant Male Protector inside of a second. Then I whispered, to warn him,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4390,3019],"class_list":["post-92990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-normal","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93047,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990\/revisions\/93047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}