{"id":1471,"date":"2021-09-03T23:31:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2021-09-03T23:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:31:24","slug":"devoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/devoured\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVOURED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My tears fall inwards.<\/p>\n<p>I have swallowed my pain.<\/p>\n<p>I am numb to all feelings, good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>It sneaked on me.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize what was happening, until the sleepless nights pounced on me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Insomnia shrouded me with its heavy, stifling mantle.<\/p>\n<p>Ulcers ambushed me, clobbered me senseless and lacerated my hapless stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Then it finally dawned on me.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t swallowed my pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It had eaten me alive.<\/p>\n<p>Pain stared back at me, waiting avariciously for my foot to slip, licking its greedy lips, wanting more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My tears fall inwards. I have swallowed my pain. I am numb to all feelings, good or bad. It sneaked on me. I didn&#8217;t realize what was happening, until the sleepless nights pounced on me.\u00a0 Insomnia shrouded me with its heavy, stifling mantle. Ulcers ambushed me, clobbered me senseless and lacerated my hapless stomach. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/devoured\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DEVOURED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}