{"id":97,"date":"2018-11-16T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=97"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:38:24","slug":"biopsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/biopsy\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOPSY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BIOPSY<\/strong><br \/>\nAs we drive the back road<br \/>\nto the hospital, redbuds swell<br \/>\nto blossom. On this day<br \/>\nof your surgery, flowers<br \/>\nstage themselves against<br \/>\nthe gray-rain sky.<\/p>\n<p>Tree-eating mowers shred<br \/>\nthe greening branches<br \/>\nas the surgeon will slice<br \/>\ncells from your breast.<\/p>\n<p>Flower by flower,<br \/>\nmagenta falls from slashed limbs,<br \/>\ncovering the road&#8217;s shoulder.<br \/>\nSection by section,<br \/>\ncells cover the slides,<br \/>\nthe pathologist will render<br \/>\na judgement.<\/p>\n<p>On the wounded boughs,<br \/>\nthe remaining leaves<br \/>\nbegin to mend<br \/>\nthe damage<br \/>\nof steel.<\/p>\n<p>Iris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOPSY As we drive the back road to the hospital, redbuds swell to blossom. On this day of your surgery, flowers stage themselves against the gray-rain sky. Tree-eating mowers shred the greening branches as the surgeon will slice cells from your breast. Flower by flower, magenta falls from slashed limbs, covering the road&#8217;s shoulder. Section&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/biopsy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BIOPSY<\/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-97","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\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}