{"id":1802,"date":"2011-04-27T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T06:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/the-cure\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T22:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:56:56","slug":"the-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/the-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"the cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my old friend<br \/>\nis worried about me<br \/>\ncoughing roughly<br \/>\ndeep in the night<br \/>\nhe stands by the bed<br \/>\nsearching my face<br \/>\nfor a cue<br \/>\na clue to my<br \/>\nsenseless barking<br \/>\nbarking<br \/>\nhe paces the floor<br \/>\nfor hours<br \/>\nhe sniffs my hand<br \/>\ningesting my malady<br \/>\nto concoct the cure<br \/>\nwhich he administers<br \/>\nin slow soft licks;<br \/>\n&#8220;be well, old friend<br \/>\nthe pack is with you.&#8221;<br \/>\nand I am well again. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>3\/17\/2005<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to <a href='http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/the-cure.mp3' class=\"wpaudio\">the cure<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/my-virtual-chapbook\/\">My Virtual Chapbook<\/a> (table of contents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my old friend is worried about me coughing roughly deep in the night he stands by the bed searching my face for a cue a clue to my senseless barking barking he paces the floor for hours he sniffs my hand ingesting my malady to concoct the cure which he administers in slow soft licks; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/the-cure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the cure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[94,67],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-dogs","tag-illness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}