{"id":64,"date":"2018-11-16T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=64"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:27:33","slug":"fading-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/fading-white\/","title":{"rendered":"FADING WHITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FADING WHITE<\/strong><br \/>\nShe lies on linen sheets<br \/>\non a white bed<br \/>\nin a white room<br \/>\nunder a white light.<\/p>\n<p>Her hand rests<br \/>\non the black<br \/>\noxygen valve,<br \/>\nskin wax-paper<br \/>\nthin, tendon<br \/>\ntwitch the only<br \/>\nsign of life.<\/p>\n<p>Behind closed eyes, she sees<br \/>\na postcard from an old lover<br \/>\ntucked into the corner of her rolltop,<br \/>\nan inlaid matchbox from the Orient<br \/>\nwith a lock of brown hair,<br \/>\nan embossing seal, the letter G<br \/>\ntinted by ancient wax.<\/p>\n<p>She knows<br \/>\nthe absence<br \/>\nof the present,<br \/>\nwonders what<br \/>\nthe next will hold.<br \/>\nThe black valve<br \/>\nwaits beneath<br \/>\nher hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FADING WHITE She lies on linen sheets on a white bed in a white room under a white light. Her hand rests on the black oxygen valve, skin wax-paper thin, tendon twitch the only sign of life. Behind closed eyes, she sees a postcard from an old lover tucked into the corner of her rolltop,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/fading-white\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FADING WHITE<\/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":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapbook","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}