{"id":8601,"date":"2024-03-03T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2024-12-20T22:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T04:59:13","slug":"every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2024\/03\/03\/every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"every day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"909\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LouieLabyrinth.png\" alt=\"Louie in a labyrinth\" class=\"wp-image-8604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LouieLabyrinth.png 998w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LouieLabyrinth-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrapped in blankets, a cozy worm of chaos, L flopped at my feet while I vacced along the bed, then he leapt and slipped and cracked the back of his head on the corner of the frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There was so much blood.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time I killed the vac, 7-8-9 thick drops pooled into splotches on his Pok\u00e9mon shirt. I scooped him up, clutching my baby, clamping his wound and his head to my chest <em>deep breaths, deep breaths<\/em> while he screamed red murder. The stench of blood was making me sick and I tried to hide it, my nausea and the fact of it, the raw wet hurt so he wouldn\u2019t panic, holding him close. Holding him in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">30,000 dead.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I think about it every day.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I would do to keep my child safe.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live in a fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think about it every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,17],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-deepsicks","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}