{"id":1232,"date":"2014-12-30T02:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/30\/she-stared-at-the-frosted-glass-blindly-holding\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T02:01:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:01:47","slug":"she-stared-at-the-frosted-glass-blindly-holding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/30\/she-stared-at-the-frosted-glass-blindly-holding\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She stared at the frosted glass blindly, holding the image in her mind of what lay beyond it. Her friend, flat and more still than she&#8217;d ever known him to be, tubes emerging from mouth and limbs, a machine breathing for him. Silent, as he was never silent.<\/p>\n<p>He would never strive for the last laugh again.<\/p>\n<p>She shifted slightly, and just like that she could see his face, slack in sedation, through the clear stripes in the glass. Something tore inside her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come back. Come back. Come back!&#8221; Her voice cracked on the tears choking her throat, and she crumpled, sobs dragging themselves out of her chest, her mouth warped around a despairing cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She stared at the frosted glass blindly, holding the image in her mind of what lay beyond it. Her friend, flat and more still than she&#8217;d ever known him to be, tubes emerging from mouth and limbs, a machine breathing for him. Silent, as he was never silent. He would never strive for the last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/30\/she-stared-at-the-frosted-glass-blindly-holding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}