{"id":2269,"date":"2012-07-13T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2012-07-13T07:09:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:09:33","slug":"tears-and-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/07\/13\/tears-and-sweat\/","title":{"rendered":"tears and sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wetness slid smoothly down my face<br \/>\ntears mixing with sweat<br \/>\ngently pooling in my ear<br \/>\nuntil it muffled the sounds of the gym<br \/>\nthe crisp smack of skin against skin<br \/>\nthe whap whap of glove against glove<br \/>\nthe loud whirring of the fan to my right<br \/>\nhummed a background tune to the music of my world<\/p>\n<p>above me was white, graying concrete and pipes<br \/>\nthe ceiling and bright florescent lights<br \/>\nI held up my notepad and tried to write<br \/>\nbut at one line I stopped<br \/>\nforgetting the rest, I laughed aloud<br \/>\nthe tears flowing freely for all to see<br \/>\nwhat I wanted to hear<br \/>\nwhat I needed to hear<br \/>\nwhat I heard just then<br \/>\nbounced through my head like an excitable child<br \/>\nIs this how one feels when their dream comes true?<br \/>\nStep by step?<br \/>\nMy right arm will stretch<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/right-arm-will-stretch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/right-arm-will-stretch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"right arm will stretch\" width=\"414\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2270\" \/><\/a><ins datetime=\"2012-07-13T13:06:43+00:00\"><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wetness slid smoothly down my face tears mixing with sweat gently pooling in my ear until it muffled the sounds of the gym the crisp smack of skin against skin the whap whap of glove against glove the loud whirring of the fan to my right hummed a background tune to the music of my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}