{"id":109,"date":"2018-11-16T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=109"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:41:47","slug":"waiting-for-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/waiting-for-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"WAITING FOR TRANSPLANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WAITING FOR TRANSPLANT <\/strong><br \/>\nSome lie, pumps pushing blood<br \/>\ninto dying hearts, others<br \/>\nsit with leathered lungs,<br \/>\neach breath a victory. <\/p>\n<p>On the television<br \/>\nin your room, we watch<br \/>\narmored tanks in Waco<br \/>\nram holes into walls, hoses<br \/>\npump in gas, the devoted<br \/>\ndon masks, wait to die<br \/>\nwhile buildings burn. <\/p>\n<p>The machine by your bed<br \/>\nkeeps time. . . 120 beats<br \/>\nper minute. <\/p>\n<p>Common Journeys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAITING FOR TRANSPLANT Some lie, pumps pushing blood into dying hearts, others sit with leathered lungs, each breath a victory. On the television in your room, we watch armored tanks in Waco ram holes into walls, hoses pump in gas, the devoted don masks, wait to die while buildings burn. The machine by your bed&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/waiting-for-transplant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WAITING FOR TRANSPLANT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}