{"id":588,"date":"2007-06-16T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/16\/cheering-the-dying\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T08:54:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T13:54:35","slug":"cheering-the-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/16\/cheering-the-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheering the dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll stay a minute; you should have a nurse<br \/>\nput these in water, or they&#8217;ll not \u2014 last.<br \/>\nI would have come in yesterday \u2014 what&#8217;s worse<br \/>\nthan promises unkept? You&#8217;d be aghast<\/p>\n<p>how often people promise to turn up;<br \/>\nand when time comes, they&#8217;re nowhere to be found.<br \/>\nThe man came to repair the furnace\u2014<br \/>\n<em>souviens-toi<\/em>, that awful roaring sound?<\/p>\n<p>Four hours at eighty per\u2014 shush: it&#8217;s just money:<br \/>\nyour heart could go again; I&#8217;d have to sell<br \/>\nthe house to make ends meet, Honey\u2014<br \/>\nanyway, I&#8217;d rather live in \u2014 well,<\/p>\n<p>I have to go. It&#8217;s been nice seeing you,<br \/>\nbut hospitals depress me, and I&#8217;ve not been\u2014<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want to bother you with too<br \/>\nmany of my problems, but it seems a sin<\/p>\n<p>to waste the lower section , so I was thinking<br \/>\nof selling off just a little of the farm,<br \/>\nenough to let me get off to far Bejing<br \/>\nor some exotic spa, away and warm.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fuss, Honey: I&#8217;ll call the nurse<br \/>\nto fix the flowers before you&#8217;re any worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll stay a minute; you should have a nurse put these in water, or they&#8217;ll not \u2014 last. I would have come in yesterday \u2014 what&#8217;s worse than promises unkept? You&#8217;d be aghast how often people promise to turn up; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/16\/cheering-the-dying\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dramatic-monologue","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}