{"id":95999,"date":"2021-06-26T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95999"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:34:11","slug":"good-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/good-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Good death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He had been sick for awhile,<br \/>\nI followed his nurse inside,<br \/>\ntrepidation welling up.<\/p>\n<p>A farmer, work showing in his calloused hands,<br \/>\nIn the middle of the room,<br \/>\nA pristine hospital bed, in a small house.<\/p>\n<p>His wife was there, reporting fading life.<br \/>\nThe nurse encouraged her,<br \/>\nTell him to go, that it is ok, he waits for you.<\/p>\n<p>She whispers this to him,<br \/>\nAnd slowly, a tear comes down his face,<br \/>\nThe last of his life sliding away, and it\u2019s ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had been sick for awhile, I followed his nurse inside, trepidation welling up. A farmer, work showing in his calloused hands, In the middle of the room, A pristine hospital bed, in a small house. His wife was there, reporting fading life. The nurse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95999","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\/3423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104150,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95999\/revisions\/104150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}