{"id":192,"date":"2018-11-16T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=192"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:13:18","slug":"tobacco-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/tobacco-season\/","title":{"rendered":"TOBACCO SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TOBACCO SEASON<\/strong><br \/>\nLungs balloon, spring ribs<br \/>\ninto oaken staves, push his diaphragm<br \/>\nto the bottom of his barreled chest.<br \/>\nNails and lips purple as blood shunts<br \/>\nto the brain, kidneys. Nasal cannula, <\/p>\n<p>oxygen concentrator, 50 foot tube<br \/>\ntrails him around the house.<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t crank up the liter flow, stops<br \/>\nthe drive to breathe. Yesterday,<br \/>\nrescue inhalers failed. His muscles quit.<\/p>\n<p>At the hospital, the doctors strap<br \/>\na breathing mask on him, later<br \/>\na tube snakes down his throat.<br \/>\nRed stop sign on tobacco yellow paper<br \/>\nhangs above the bed-<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT RESUSITATE. <\/p>\n<p>the barefoot review 6\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOBACCO SEASON Lungs balloon, spring ribs into oaken staves, push his diaphragm to the bottom of his barreled chest. Nails and lips purple as blood shunts to the brain, kidneys. Nasal cannula, oxygen concentrator, 50 foot tube trails him around the house. Can&#8217;t crank up the liter flow, stops the drive to breathe. Yesterday, rescue&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/tobacco-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TOBACCO SEASON<\/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-192","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\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}