{"id":2477,"date":"2011-04-28T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/up-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:57:14","slug":"up-in-the-middle-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/up-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"up in the middle of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up in the middle of the night<br \/>\non my way to the bathroom<br \/>\nI dropped dead.<br \/>\nLying in the hall<br \/>\nin my final second,<br \/>\nI saw all to come:<br \/>\nthe weddings and dances<br \/>\nthe funerals<br \/>\nall the wars<br \/>\na million suns<br \/>\nrising and setting<br \/>\na small blue and white ball<br \/>\nspinning before me<br \/>\nforever over in an instant. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>10\/4\/2004<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to <a href='http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/up-in-the-middle-of-the-night.mp3' class=\"wpaudio\">up in the middle of the night<\/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>Up in the middle of the night on my way to the bathroom I dropped dead. Lying in the hall in my final second, I saw all to come: the weddings and dances the funerals all the wars a million suns rising and setting a small blue and white ball spinning before me forever over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2011-a-virtual-chapbook\/up-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">up in the middle of the night<\/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":[68],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-a-virtual-chapbook","tag-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6134,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}