{"id":772,"date":"2012-11-04T18:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-11-04T18:46:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:46:03","slug":"drop-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/11\/04\/drop-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"DROP ZONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/a-j\/\">A.J<\/a>.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>I sit down and strap in,<br \/>\nAll I can think is that I cant wait for this to end.<br \/>\nThe carnie tells me, \u201cKeep your hands and feet inside at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I see all the kids waiting in lines.<br \/>\nNot one looks the least bit terrified.<br \/>\nBut me? I\u2019m thinking\u2026I\u2019m out of my freakin\u2019 mind.<br \/>\nI look to my right and see Jeremiah lookin\u2019 hard as can be,<br \/>\nbut for some reason, he cant stop shakin\u2019 his knees.<\/p>\n<p>ERRRRR! The right starts up.<br \/>\nSuddently, I feel as though I might throw up.<br \/>\nWe started ascending and my feet lifted off the ground.<br \/>\nWe start to pass the Ferris Wheel goin\u2019 round and round.<\/p>\n<p>As we reach the end of our journey all the way up,<br \/>\nI\u2019m feelin\u2019 breathless from the waist up.<br \/>\nIt felt like something inside me was gonna erupt.<br \/>\nFor a moment\u2026there was no gravity.<\/p>\n<p>I could see the whole city.<br \/>\nEverything stopped.<br \/>\nI could feel my heard beat.<br \/>\nThen, it began\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We go down at a speed you couldn\u2019t imagine<br \/>\nI scream the whole way down.<br \/>\nEveryone could hear me, even in the town.<br \/>\nOnce I got to the bottom, I thanked God that he let me live &lt;3<br \/>\nI will never ride the \u201cDrop Zone\u201d again.<br \/>\nNow I have more life to give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/a-j\/\">A.J<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I sit down and strap in,<br \/> All I can think is that I cant wait for this to end.<br \/> The carnie tells me, \u201cKeep your hands and feet inside at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I see all the kids waiting in lines.<br \/> Not one looks the least bit terrified.<br \/> But [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79510],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","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\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}