{"id":1969,"date":"2019-07-22T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:11","slug":"sweltering-slumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2019\/07\/22\/sweltering-slumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweltering slumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/steve-johnson-ZXWOrKZ0h_M-unsplash-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/steve-johnson-ZXWOrKZ0h_M-unsplash-cropped-1024x456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sweltering slumber<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>wake up drenched<br \/>\nin silent screams<br \/>\nanother nightmare<br \/>\nshirt&#8217;s soaked in a cold sweat<br \/>\nfrom the memories<\/p>\n<p>shout silent words<br \/>\nthe price to pay is steep<br \/>\nthe beating of your heart<br \/>\nin your throat<\/p>\n<p>grateful to be awake<br \/>\nbut can&#8217;t determine where<br \/>\nthe nightmare ends<br \/>\nand consciousness begins<\/p>\n<p>what&#8217;s the memory<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s the sorrow<br \/>\nfuck the flashback<br \/>\npush the horror away<\/p>\n<p>the fear<br \/>\nthe memories<br \/>\ncause a blurring of vision<br \/>\nthe salty water flows<\/p>\n<p>it happens in silence<br \/>\nin this moment<br \/>\ntime does not<br \/>\nheal all wounds<\/p>\n<p>take a deep breath<br \/>\nwipe your eyes<br \/>\nexhale slowly<br \/>\nkeep the visions inside<br \/>\nso you can roll over<br \/>\nand start the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[238,284,285,294],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mental-health","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-ptsd"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}