{"id":76,"date":"2021-07-28T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2021-07-28T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T19:21:12","slug":"writing-exercise-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercise #4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspired by beloved friend <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/1Rjqv8huXCusmFqQ4gKz5d?si=xYPwpGr2Q9CKrbVt8p202w&amp;dl_branch=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chiwan&#8217;s new ghost podcast. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Wake up.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t have to say no, I&#8217;m already awake. I never want to&nbsp;do this with them.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Wake up.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My eyes are open and wide. I can tell it is between 3 and 3:30 AM, the neighbor is out warming up his car and I can hear what? Two sneezes, big trucks pulling into the rest stop to the East. The lady two houses down&nbsp;has&nbsp;chickens starting to stir.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Look.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t have to say no. I&#8217;m already looking. I never want to do it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Wake up.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now they plead. They hate it when I act like I can\u2019t see and can\u2019t hear.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Wake up.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Look.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I close my eyes. I can sleep for a few more hours. I can dream them away for a precious bit of peace. And when I wake up to see the sun flooding my room and the shadows suddenly stilled, I will look. I will be, awake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by beloved friend Chiwan&#8217;s new ghost podcast. Wake up.&nbsp; I don\u2019t have to say no, I&#8217;m already awake. I never want to&nbsp;do this with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","gbox-medium":"","gbox-large":"","gbox-vertical":"","gbox-horizontal":"","gbox-hlarge":"","slider-bg":"","card-grid":"","card-list":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Shanz","author_link":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonbarber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}