{"id":150,"date":"2018-11-16T19:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=150"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:05:44","slug":"snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAPSHOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SNAPSHOTS <\/strong><br \/>\nI<\/p>\n<p>Small trailer, screened in porch, a door that sticks, brown couch, blue recliner,<br \/>\ncoffee table. The husband, gray, thin, cyanotic lips, oxygen cannula around his<br \/>\nface. I have come to treat him. Strengthening exercises the doctor said.<br \/>\nThe wife, warped by a muscle imbalance, useless arm akimbo. Despite their<br \/>\nproblems, they manage, just like my parents I think. She showed me how to<br \/>\nincrease the oxygen flow if he needs more. I know nothing of their life.<\/p>\n<p>II<\/p>\n<p>I pull into the drive by the ambulance. Gray body stretched on the floor, chair<br \/>\nout of place, she is screaming into the phone. &#8220;Come quick, Bill is dead&#8221; All<br \/>\nI knew was to hold her. Neighbors stop by, the police. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do nothing,<br \/>\nI did the best I could,&#8221; she cries. Tried to get in touch with her son, but I was<br \/>\nshaking so hard I couldn&#8217;t dial. Someone goes to get him. The ambulance crew<br \/>\ngets information. Her parents finally come.<\/p>\n<p>III<\/p>\n<p>My father undergoing angioplasty, my mother sits alone in the wrong waiting<br \/>\nroom, not even a volunteer to ask about family, any conversation to make<br \/>\nthe time go faster. My parents told me not to come. A long day, the procedure<br \/>\ndelayed. Finally someone finds her, everything has gone well. She asks for a<br \/>\nphone to call me. What were they thinking about me?<\/p>\n<p>Iris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNAPSHOTS I Small trailer, screened in porch, a door that sticks, brown couch, blue recliner, coffee table. The husband, gray, thin, cyanotic lips, oxygen cannula around his face. I have come to treat him. Strengthening exercises the doctor said. The wife, warped by a muscle imbalance, useless arm akimbo. Despite their problems, they manage, just&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/snapshots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SNAPSHOTS<\/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-150","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\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}