{"id":10264,"date":"2015-11-09T20:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2015-11-09T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:58:21","slug":"oh-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/oh-one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"oh one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the paris review interview with poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5583\/the-art-of-poetry-no-91-jack-gilbert\" target=\"_blank\">jack gilbert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019ve never been in a hospital, except once\u2014I fell. &#8230; I was supposed to die. I fell head down from ninety feet. When I didn\u2019t die right away, they let me go home. I insisted because it was Christmas. If I was going to die, I wanted to die under the Christmas tree with Linda. I still didn\u2019t die. But I couldn\u2019t support my own torso because I\u2019d broken my spine and chest. Linda and I wanted to go to Europe, so I had them build something that was like an exoskeleton. After saying goodbye to the doctors, I walked toward the door with Linda and when I got halfway there the doctor in charge said, Oh, one thing. If you feel a little bit of tingling in your fingers, that will mean that the paralysis has started.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the paris review interview with poet jack gilbert: I\u2019ve never been in a hospital, except once\u2014I fell. &#8230; I was supposed to die. I fell head down from ninety feet. When I didn\u2019t die right away, they let me go home. I insisted because it was Christmas. If I was going to die, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}