{"id":122,"date":"2016-07-29T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=122"},"modified":"2016-07-29T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:33:14","slug":"inevitable-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2016\/07\/29\/inevitable-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"INEVITABLE GROWTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by ELEXIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I yank open the scratchy door to my place that reeks of the dogs next door. I throw down my briefcase and sink into my uncontrollably shrinking couch. I unbuckle a belt to release my gaping stomach from its restraining collar. My hair is too happy to allow me to reach to the remote, so I sit struggling to deal with the dead silence of my empty apartment. Placing my paws on my face, I sulk in my thoughts of loveliness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here we go again. I reach my left paw into my pocket only to realize I\u2019d lost my cell. The only way of escaping the couch was to roll\u2026so I rolled. I rolled face first to the ground and continued in my pitiful twists and turns to the landline. I dialed the only number I ever memorized and they always answered with a friendly, \u201cHello, Oreo\u2026the usual?\u201d I would grumble out sounds to make me sound like I\u2019d say something like \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cthank you.\u201d They hung up the phone because I am on too much pain medication from my tangles to say goodbye. I lay on the floor staring at the ceiling asking myself if I could make it to the door today. My limbs are old and I am too fat to care about my inevitable death? Obesity obviously. Why don\u2019t I care? Why did I spend my entire life alone. Wha\u2014 my thoughts are stopped from a loud knocking. I find just enough strength to sit up on all fours and answer the door. The cat that delivered to me was a small, beautiful, young one named whiskey; not only the color of her fur but my favorite kind of drink. She purrs at me and smiles brightly. I give her the money and she tells me she\u2019ll see me tomorrow as she prances down the hall. I close the door and sink back into my uncontrollably shrinking couch. I use my enlarging stomach as a dining table and as I open the box I can smell grease and tuna. The pizza is always the same for me. I grab a slice and pray it isn\u2019t the one that light at the end of the road, for I am in an inevitable self-destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by ELEXIS<\/p>\n<p>I yank open the scratchy door to my place that reeks of the dogs next door. I throw down my briefcase and sink into my uncontrollably shrinking couch. I unbuckle a belt to release my gaping stomach from its restraining collar. My hair is too happy to allow me to reach to the [&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}