{"id":157647,"date":"2015-04-24T20:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/24\/sit-down-inhale-exhale-the-gun-will-wait-the\/"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:27:25","slug":"sit-down-inhale-exhale-the-gun-will-wait-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/24\/sit-down-inhale-exhale-the-gun-will-wait-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Sit down. Inhale. Exhale.<br \/>\nThe gun will wait. The lake will wait.<br \/>\nThe tall gall in the small seductive vial<br \/>\nwill wait will wait:<br \/>\nwill wait a week: will wait through April.<br \/>\nYou do not have to die this certain day.<br \/>\nDeath will abide, will pamper your postponement.<br \/>\nI assure you death will wait. Death has<br \/>\na lot of time. Death can<br \/>\nattend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is<br \/>\njust down the street; is most obliging neighbor;<br \/>\ncan meet you any moment.<br \/>\nYou need not die today.<br \/>\nStay here\u2013through pout or pain or peskyness.<br \/>\nStay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Graves grow no green that you can use.<br \/>\nRemember, green\u2019s your color. You are Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Gwendolyn Brooks, <i>To the Young Who Want to Die<\/i> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/whitegirlsaintshit.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">whitegirlsaintshit<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/24\/sit-down-inhale-exhale-the-gun-will-wait-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1602,5133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}