{"id":95,"date":"2018-11-16T18:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:38:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:38:05","slug":"go-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/go-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"GO TO SLEEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GO TO SLEEP<\/strong><br \/>\nHer husband offers<br \/>\nher favorite,<br \/>\na soft boiled egg,<br \/>\nbut she pushes<br \/>\nthe spoon away,<br \/>\nchokes<br \/>\non a sip of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine<br \/>\nhow it is to watch<br \/>\nyour wife die.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been here three<br \/>\ntimes before; to teach<br \/>\nher to get out of bed, to make<br \/>\nher muscles stronger.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want?<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s 93.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t work miracles.<\/p>\n<p>I watch him move<br \/>\nher from the bed<br \/>\nto the wheelchair.<br \/>\nI have no more<br \/>\nto show him.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about<br \/>\nfeeding tubes<br \/>\nor letting nature<br \/>\ntake its course.<br \/>\nHe still doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow what to do.<\/p>\n<p>On good days,<br \/>\nshe spends afternoons<br \/>\non the deck, pushes<br \/>\nherself around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SLEEP Her husband offers her favorite, a soft boiled egg, but she pushes the spoon away, chokes on a sip of coffee. I can&#8217;t imagine how it is to watch your wife die. I&#8217;ve been here three times before; to teach her to get out of bed, to make her muscles stronger. What&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/go-to-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GO TO SLEEP<\/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-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}