{"id":2417,"date":"2017-12-19T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcslibraryhouse.wordpress.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2017-12-19T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:22:12","slug":"contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:\u00a0<\/strong>Write a poem or a short story about a random word and what it means to you in your own words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">What happens when you can&#8217;t stop<br \/>\nlaughing<br \/>\nbecause they are<br \/>\nlaughing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spreading, spreading.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That blissful feeling&#8230;<br \/>\nwhen I smile at you,<br \/>\nand you smile back,<br \/>\nwaving.<\/p>\n<p>Makes my heart pound<br \/>\nlike there&#8217;s no tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spreading, spreading.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Sadness.<\/p>\n<p>When you cry<br \/>\nand I join you. I hold you closely&#8230;<br \/>\nshushing you from your sobs.<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height:inherit;\">Ignoring my aching heart,<br \/>\n<\/span>from its somberness.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t hold you back<br \/>\nfrom your wails of agony<br \/>\nand despair.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spreading, spreading.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>The sorrow I feel&#8230;<br \/>\nspreading like spilled water,<br \/>\ndrowning my heart<br \/>\nin regrets and guilt.<\/p>\n<p>February is more lonely now&#8230;<br \/>\nnow that you&#8217;re long gone.<br \/>\nThe long, anticipated breath<br \/>\nof February<br \/>\nfills me with misery.<\/p>\n<p>And the fact that you&#8217;re<br \/>\nnot smiling at me now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spreading, spreading.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Clutching your letters<br \/>\nthat you sent,<br \/>\nI stare at your name.<br \/>\nEngraved into a gravestone.<br \/>\nThe grief that shot through<br \/>\nus when you lost.<\/p>\n<p>You lost the game&#8230;<br \/>\nthe game that you were so<br \/>\nused to beating.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spreading<\/em>, pausing&#8230;<br \/>\ndeep breath,<br \/>\npausing,<br \/>\n<em>spreading.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: Write a poem or a short story about a random word and what it means to you in your own words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}