{"id":137,"date":"2018-11-16T19:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=137"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:02:47","slug":"last-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/last-light\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST LIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAST LIGHT<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ultrasound shows<br \/>\nthe tumor that slips<br \/>\nbetween vessel walls<br \/>\nletting blood pass<br \/>\ninto your gut.<\/p>\n<p>I watch as the veterinarian pushes<br \/>\nsodium pentothal into your vein,<br \/>\nwait for the drug to leak<br \/>\ninto your cells.<br \/>\n          Breathing shallows,<br \/>\n          eyes distance,<br \/>\n          heart falters.<br \/>\nWas the last image<br \/>\nto reach your darkening brain<br \/>\nmy blurred remains?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAST LIGHT The ultrasound shows the tumor that slips between vessel walls letting blood pass into your gut. I watch as the veterinarian pushes sodium pentothal into your vein, wait for the drug to leak into your cells. Breathing shallows, eyes distance, heart falters. Was the last image to reach your darkening brain my blurred&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/last-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LAST LIGHT<\/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-137","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\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}