{"id":1850,"date":"2004-12-08T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T20:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:01:22","slug":"chance-to-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/08\/chance-to-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance to Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s dizzying pace had to break.<br \/>\nIt had outrun itself.<br \/>\nTo some a hero,<br \/>\nunstoppable by any means.<br \/>\nBut to me, a fool<br \/>\ntrying to outrun<br \/>\nthe inevitable. <\/p>\n<p>The inevitable<br \/>\nlived up to its name. <\/p>\n<p>Those days too empty<br \/>\nof moments in which to take<br \/>\na breath and smile&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Those days where ne&#8217;er a<br \/>\nmoment<\/p>\n<p>went unreconciled&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Those days that have helped<br \/>\ncreate enough memories for<br \/>\nsomeone twice my age&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then a near-death life-change<br \/>\ntook place. <\/p>\n<p>The days became a tranquil<br \/>\nroutine of tests<br \/>\nand visits<br \/>\nand rest. <\/p>\n<p>An incessant brigade of<br \/>\npokes and<br \/>\nprods and<br \/>\nquestions<\/p>\n<p>and rest. <\/p>\n<p>A sudden, unrequested change<br \/>\nto take stock and recompense. <\/p>\n<p>A chance to rejuvenate,<br \/>\ndrop old charges,<br \/>\nrelinquish un-needed<br \/>\nresponsibility, <\/p>\n<p>re-prioritize<br \/>\naccording to what&#8217;s best. <\/p>\n<p>A chance to heal<br \/>\nand think<br \/>\nonly of what&#8217;s best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s dizzying pace had to break.<br \/> It had outrun itself.<br \/> To some a hero,<br \/> unstoppable by any means.<br \/> But to me, a fool<br \/> trying to outrun<br \/> the inevitable. <\/p>\n<p>The inevitable<br \/> lived up to its name. <\/p>\n<p>Those days too empty<br \/> of moments in which to take<br \/> a breath and smile&#8230; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}