{"id":342,"date":"2021-04-14T01:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T01:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T11:22:50","slug":"chest-pains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/chest-pains\/","title":{"rendered":"Chest Pains"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>JLK<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My heart aches<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feels like there is a hand in my chest<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It snaked its way between my ribs and around my sternum<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palm wrapped around my heart<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Squeezing, as the muscle bulges between the fingers<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>My chest hurts<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hand trying to take my heart from its cavity<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning and twisting, trying to fit back between my ribs<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refusing to let go, the hand pulls and pulls<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pushing against the inside of its cage<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>I am afraid<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day the hand will grow strong enough and rip through my ribs<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scattering blood and bone<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaving me to fall to my knees as an empty husk of what I once was<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfeeling and alone<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>I am in pain<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But at least I am not numb<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least I am not nothing<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JLK &nbsp; My heart aches Feels like there is a hand in my chest It snaked its way between my ribs and around my sternum Palm wrapped around my heart Squeezing, as the muscle bulges between the fingers &nbsp; My chest hurts The hand trying to take my heart from its cavity Turning and twisting,&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/chest-pains\/\">Continue Reading Chest Pains<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}