{"id":7521,"date":"2014-09-01T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:57:36","slug":"july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/july\/","title":{"rendered":"July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tumblr_nb3gvoI7Cl1qja5e1o1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tumblr_nb3gvoI7Cl1qja5e1o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_nb3gvoI7Cl1qja5e1o1_500\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Death arrived first and waited for the rest of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She slept in bed beneath a pall of down and cotton,<br \/>\ndrifting away from consciousness<br \/>\nwhile we toiled within it.<\/p>\n<p>We watched her,<br \/>\nour hushed voices rising up into the air,<br \/>\n&#8220;What do we do?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s left?\u201d<br \/>\nThe questions rose while spirits sank.<\/p>\n<p>Her body left a cavity where she tucked herself in,<br \/>\nburied under the insidious warmth of the duvet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pounds lost were nothing to the gravity upon her.<br \/>\nHer breath ebbed back into her lungs,<br \/>\nfollowing the contoured mattress\u2014<br \/>\na cushion sloped like the bends of the universe\u2014<br \/>\ncompelled by forces pulling it in,<br \/>\npulling her in,<br \/>\ntoo strong to escape,<br \/>\nuntil she was the first to reach out her hand and say,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Hello.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Johanna Lorie is a twenty-something who usually just writes her feelings in text messages to friends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death arrived first and waited for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>She slept in bed beneath a pall of down and cotton,<br \/>\ndrifting away from consciousness<br \/>\nwhile we toiled within it.<\/p>\n<p>We watched her,<br \/>\nour hushed voices rising up into the air,<br \/>\n&#8220;What do we do?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s left?\u201d<br \/>\nThe questions rose while spirits sank.<\/p>\n<p>Her body left a cavity where she tucked herself in,<br \/>\nburied under the insidious warmth of the duvet.<\/p>\n<p>Pounds lost were nothing to the gravity upon her.<br \/>\nHer breath ebbed back into her lungs,<br \/>\nfollowing the contoured mattress\u2014<br \/>\na cushion sloped like the bends of the universe\u2014<br \/>\ncompelled by forces pulling it in,<br \/>\npulling her in,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/july\/\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}