{"id":96310,"date":"2021-06-26T19:25:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96310"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:25:23","slug":"hour-1-of-24-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-1-of-24-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 1 of 24) \u201cwaiting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAm I getting better, daddy?\u201d she asks me.<\/p>\n<p>tubes and needles everywhere<\/p>\n<p>poking, intruding, drawing, taking,<\/p>\n<p>all without a moment\u2019s respite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you are, my little angel\u201d, I lie to her with false alacrity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I getting better, daddy?\u201d she asks me.<\/p>\n<p>chemicals that bleach her into pallor<\/p>\n<p>drugs that take away her crowning glory of soft, golden curls<\/p>\n<p>foreign bodies that they pump to defile her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you are, my little angel\u201d, I convince her, and me, with base cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I getting better, daddy?\u201d she asks me.<\/p>\n<p>smiling bravely through tears of pain<\/p>\n<p>sensing an inevitability<\/p>\n<p>with every tortured breath, she slips away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you are, my little angel\u201d, I whisper with accepted finality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2021 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAm I getting better, daddy?\u201d she asks me. tubes and needles everywhere poking, intruding, drawing, taking, all without a moment\u2019s respite. \u201cYes, you are, my little angel\u201d, I lie to her with false alacrity. &nbsp; \u201cAm I getting better, daddy?\u201d she asks me. chemicals that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96310","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96337,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96310\/revisions\/96337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}