{"id":182,"date":"2018-11-16T19:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=182"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:11:36","slug":"a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Question<\/strong><br \/>\nWhich ion starts the cascade<br \/>\nthat becomes a thought,<br \/>\nsodium or potassium?<br \/>\nAn electrical current ripples<br \/>\ndown the axon<br \/>\nin milliseconds,<br \/>\nchemicals float into the neural junction,<br \/>\nspread to the adjacent neuron. <\/p>\n<p>But where does the process become<br \/>\nmore than electricity and chemicals?<br \/>\nDoes it race through the hippocampus<br \/>\nto gain a hint of emotion, gather<br \/>\nattention in the thalamus, rush into the light<br \/>\nof the cerebral cortex<\/p>\n<p>to become this poem?<\/p>\n<p>Epiphany mag online, 4\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Question Which ion starts the cascade that becomes a thought, sodium or potassium? An electrical current ripples down the axon in milliseconds, chemicals float into the neural junction, spread to the adjacent neuron. But where does the process become more than electricity and chemicals? Does it race through the hippocampus to gain a hint&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/a-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Question<\/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-182","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\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}