{"id":952,"date":"2006-12-28T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/952"},"modified":"2007-04-24T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T06:56:20","slug":"a-poem-for-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/952","title":{"rendered":"A poem for my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was this cough<br \/>\nthat infected the BWC,<br \/>\nechoing down the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>You may scoff,<br \/>\nbut trust me on this,<br \/>\nthe rockets were never this loud.<\/p>\n<p>The lady afflicted by the curse<br \/>\nhid in corners and behind stairs<br \/>\nbut the noise from her lungs<br \/>\nshook in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Her friends Abi &amp; John,<br \/>\nhit especially hard<br \/>\ncringed from the sound<br \/>\nof her plague-ridden bark.<\/p>\n<p>In the end she became known<br \/>\nas the girl with the cough<br \/>\nif she doesn&#8217;t heal soon<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll have to make a Sholeh-clone.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/center><em>The story behind this horrible poem is that I&#8217;ve been sick for over 2 weeks now, and unfortunately it appears to be going around because a number of people are sick. This cough I have seems to get really bad at the worst possible times: presentations, talks, prayers, etc. It laid me out pretty badly and I&#8217;ve felt pretty useless. I&#8217;m slowly getting better, but I&#8217;ve never had a cold linger this long!<\/em><em>So we were joking around the other night, and I told some of my friends that I would write a poem for them about my cough. Have you ever tried to rhyme with &#8220;cough&#8221;? Ugh. This poem took a lot of hard sleuthing.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was this cough that infected the BWC, echoing down the mountain. You may scoff, but trust me on this, the rockets were never this loud. The lady afflicted by the curse hid in corners and behind stairs but the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}