{"id":1315,"date":"2013-03-27T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:52:18","slug":"when-i-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2013\/03\/27\/when-i-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN I REMEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=paula&amp;submit.x=-1130&amp;submit.y=-337\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PAULA<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>When I remember you, I don&#8217;t think of IV<br \/>\nand physical therapy.<br \/>\nI chase the times you&#8217;d make me quesadillas<br \/>\nnot caring about your crippled hands paining<br \/>\nyou.<br \/>\nThe picture of Spongebob that hung on your fridge is now plastered to mine.<br \/>\nYellowed parchment, crumpled up like brittle<br \/>\nsandpaper.<br \/>\nWhen I run back to those days,<br \/>\nI lose myself in a green apartment complex<br \/>\nwith a snow-dusted gazebo, two over-sized<br \/>\ndumpsters, and a cramped elevator.<br \/>\nNow when I reminisce, I itch and sweat,<br \/>\nlike I&#8217;m in an asbestos-lined laundry<br \/>\nroom.<br \/>\nYou taught me to never idolize time.<br \/>\nAnd time is the one thing I<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t idolize if I wanted to.<br \/>\nYou have to have something to idolize it.<br \/>\nRather, I&#8217;ll sit comfortably on your foam<br \/>\nbed and blue couch and let the salt sting<br \/>\nme, like festering bacon in a frying pan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0PAULA When I remember you, I don&#8217;t think of IV and physical therapy. I chase the times you&#8217;d make me quesadillas not caring about your crippled hands paining you. The picture of Spongebob that hung on your fridge is now plastered to mine. Yellowed parchment, crumpled up like brittle sandpaper. When I run back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79493],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-paula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}