{"id":3151,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3151"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"one-easter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/one-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"One Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> One Easter<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 21, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t really hear the words<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 just one word<\/p>\n<p>All about survival rates and<br \/>\ndrug trials<br \/>\npositive thinking<br \/>\nlong term options<br \/>\nside effects<\/p>\n<p>You just hold him<br \/>\ntiny, weak, emaciated<br \/>\nas they explain things<br \/>\nthings<br \/>\nyou never wanted to know<\/p>\n<p>how if it had been you<br \/>\nyou would have died<br \/>\nbut now<br \/>\nnow<\/p>\n<p>things are different<\/p>\n<p>no, it can&#8217;t start today,<br \/>\nOn Monday,<br \/>\nand really<br \/>\ntry not to worry<\/p>\n<p>How do you not worry?<br \/>\nTwo days before<br \/>\nRhabdomyosarcoma<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t even a crossword answer<br \/>\nnow it may be a death sentence<br \/>\nand you pronounce it<br \/>\nCancer<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nHe was 6, my youngest son, they were the Consultant oncologists and Great<br \/>\nOrmond Street Hospital<br \/>\nHe is now 18, and about to go off to university.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t a fun year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Easter by cricketjeff on August 21, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved You don&#8217;t really hear the words \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 just one word All about survival rates and drug trials positive thinking long term options side effects You just hold him tiny, weak, emaciated as they explain things things you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3151\/revisions\/8357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}