He fell. Down the mountain. The one he climbed. For roots. <\/p>\n
His wife is in the hospital. And when she isn’t, she’s not getting better. <\/p>\n
His brother … cancer. They’re not thinking about it. Not gonna let it bother them. But it does. It must. <\/p>\n
His daughter is being biopsied. For the thing that took his sister. <\/p>\n
His grand baby, the great one, is asleep. Under anesthesia. A ‘procedure’. <\/p>\n
Bear my burden. You do it so well. <\/em> <\/p>\n He’s been doing it for years. <\/p>\n But how do you bear his? <\/p>\n I’ve thought about this. A lot. Even before I had to. <\/p>\n I’m trying to know. But I don’t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He fell. Down the mountain. The one he climbed. For roots. His wife is in the hospital. And when she isn’t, she’s not getting better. His brother … cancer. They’re not thinking about it. Not gonna let it bother them. But it does. It must. His daughter is being biopsied. For the thing that took<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}