{"id":111,"date":"2018-11-16T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:42:07","slug":"recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"RECOVERY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RECOVERY<\/strong><br \/>\nSix months of waiting,<br \/>\nyou left for surgery. I hoped<br \/>\nyou remembered the black<br \/>\nshell from the coast. <\/p>\n<p>The next day,<br \/>\nI came to work,<br \/>\npunched your name<br \/>\ninto the computer. <\/p>\n<p>In your room, I saw<br \/>\nthe aftermath of transplant,<br \/>\nbloated body, tubes, two<br \/>\nnurses working<br \/>\nto keep you stable. <\/p>\n<p>You woke a few days<br \/>\nlater to feel the shots<br \/>\nthat kept your body<br \/>\nfrom rejecting<br \/>\nyour new heart.<br \/>\nYou muttered, &#8220;I won&#8217;t<br \/>\nbe a wimp.&#8221; I stretched<br \/>\nyour legs to work out<br \/>\nthe soreness of the injections. <\/p>\n<p>Once the monitors are off,<br \/>\nyou can begin the long road<br \/>\nto walking. You have a shell<br \/>\nto return to the sea. <\/p>\n<p>Common Journeys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOVERY Six months of waiting, you left for surgery. I hoped you remembered the black shell from the coast. The next day, I came to work, punched your name into the computer. In your room, I saw the aftermath of transplant, bloated body, tubes, two nurses working to keep you stable. You woke a few&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/recovery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RECOVERY<\/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-111","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\/111","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=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}