{"id":856,"date":"2021-05-13T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T22:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/?p=856"},"modified":"2021-05-13T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T22:45:10","slug":"tina-s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/2021\/05\/tina-s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina S."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Lead and Mush<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014Living With CFS\u2014<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes<br \/>\nWhen my muscles are lead<br \/>\nAnd my brain is mush<br \/>\nAnd nothing in me can sleep<br \/>\nI pretend I am dying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have walked far,<br \/>\nOver mountains<br \/>\nAnd back<br \/>\nSo there is some good reason I am so tired.<br \/>\nIt is cold<br \/>\nAnd I lie down<br \/>\nUnder a bush or a tree<br \/>\nPerhaps on some soft snow<br \/>\nOr frosty leaves.<br \/>\nI get so cold<br \/>\nI sleep<br \/>\nAnd I die.<br \/>\nFinally,<br \/>\nRest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes someone rescues me.<br \/>\nSometimes they don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nDo I ever want to get up again?<br \/>\nNot when I am lead and mush:<br \/>\nJoints creaking,<br \/>\nHead screaming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All that will go away,<br \/>\nBut it will be back,<br \/>\nIn force,<br \/>\nOr to drag,<br \/>\nAnd nag,<br \/>\nAnd pester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So why should I get up?<br \/>\nBecause no one else will sweep the kitchen floor?<br \/>\nAnd I guess, no one else<br \/>\nWill be me.<br \/>\nIs it worth the effort?<br \/>\nSometimes.<br \/>\nRemember that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead and Mush \u2014Living With CFS\u2014 Sometimes When my muscles are lead And my brain is mush And nothing in me can sleep I pretend I am dying. I have walked far, Over mountains And back So there is some good reason I am so tired. It is cold And I lie down Under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tina-rotated-e1620945904314.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofchronicillness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}