{"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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=paula&amp;submit.x=-1130&amp;submit.y=-337\" target=\"_blank\">PAULA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>When I remember you, I don&#8217;t think of IV<br \/> and physical therapy.<br \/> I chase the times you&#8217;d make me quesadillas<br \/> not caring about your crippled hands paining<br \/> you.<br \/> The picture of Spongebob that hung on your fridge is now plastered to mine.<br \/> Yellowed parchment, crumpled up [&#8230;]<\/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}]}}