{"id":68,"date":"2018-11-16T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=68"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:28:42","slug":"listening-to-a-parent-with-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/listening-to-a-parent-with-als\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTENING TO A PARENT WITH ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LISTENING TO A PARENT WITH ALS<\/strong><br \/>\nIt started in my left foot,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the worst one right now.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to get stiff,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t want a feeding tube,<br \/>\nI want to eat like I always do.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve researched this disease&#8211;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s stealing my body.<\/p>\n<p>What about your other patients&#8211;<br \/>\nthe young woman&#8211;<br \/>\ndoes she have children?<br \/>\nAnd the one<br \/>\nwho can&#8217;t hold her head up.<\/p>\n<p>You know, you can&#8217;t see the wind,<br \/>\nor a word or love. I wonder<br \/>\nif you become energy.<br \/>\nI want to have control at the end.<br \/>\nI think the light people see<br \/>\nis just the brain shutting down.<\/p>\n<p>One week I can get in the tub,<br \/>\nthe next, I have to figure a new way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTENING TO A PARENT WITH ALS It started in my left foot, it&#8217;s the worst one right now. I don&#8217;t want to get stiff, don&#8217;t want a feeding tube, I want to eat like I always do. I&#8217;ve researched this disease&#8211; it&#8217;s stealing my body. What about your other patients&#8211; the young woman&#8211; does she&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/listening-to-a-parent-with-als\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LISTENING TO A PARENT WITH ALS<\/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-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapbook","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}