{"id":1069,"date":"2024-04-30T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/?page_id=1069"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:58:04","slug":"a-drop-below-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/a-drop-below-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left has-quinary-color has-senary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-extra-large-font-size wp-elements-1\"><blockquote><p>Swimming upstream<br>pressed between the roof <br>of my mouth and tongue<br>is a rock smooth with saliva<br><br>With someone\u2019s\u202ffeet<br>pressing\u202fon my back<br>I drag my body forward along\u202fthe riverbed<br><br>Sometimes they let me float to the top<br>where I turn around and <br>feel the sun on my face<br>sucking cold air past teeth <br>coated in a green scum of algae<br><br>A blow to my belly<br>and a drop below the surface<br><br>the river- <br>not deep or fast enough to kill,<br>not taking me with it- <br>has cheated me<br><br>Climbing onto the bank<br>then to the path<br>walking home in a mess of dark and leaves<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming upstreampressed between the roof of my mouth and tongueis a rock smooth with saliva With someone\u2019s\u202ffeetpressing\u202fon my backI drag my body forward along\u202fthe riverbed Sometimes they let me float to the topwhere I turn around and feel the sun on my facesucking cold air past teeth coated in a green scum of algae A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caoimhin.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}