{"id":3464,"date":"2025-01-20T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:25:40","slug":"er-djt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"ER &amp; DJT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some will look for a way out, an end to history;&nbsp;<br \/>the woman who swallowed pills,<br \/>was rushed to the ER with an inked note<br \/>pinned to her sad, sallow blouse:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DO NOT RESUSCITATE if Donald Trump wins.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>That was November, 2016. My doctor-friend had&nbsp;<br \/>his orders: she won; she doesn\u2019t have to relive&nbsp;<br \/>the second debacle. Mother, who flirted with&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Donald as cream to hot coffee,<br \/>as pretzels are drawn to bloody Mary.<br \/>He hit on a babysitter brought to her party \u2013&nbsp;<br \/>snubbed Mother when she quit his club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lothario of the quivering ego&#8212; he never spoke&nbsp;<br \/>to her again. What would she, acid commentator&nbsp;<br \/>of petty tyrants and babies \u2013 i.e., men\u2019s totality &#8211;&nbsp;<br \/>now say?&nbsp;&nbsp;She too is spared the indignity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My letter carrier\u2019s card-carrying union father kicked\u00a0<br \/>before Nov. 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0Spared again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No reason to leave this beautiful world just yet.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>The deep processes of awareness unfinished.<br \/>The blanks &amp; pits &amp; recommitment.\u00a0<br \/>Painful radiance will survive.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some will look for a way out, an end to history;&nbsp;the woman who swallowed pills,was rushed to the ER with an inked notepinned to her sad, sallow blouse:&nbsp; DO NOT RESUSCITATE if Donald Trump wins.&nbsp;&nbsp;That was November, 2016. My doctor-friend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3464\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1552,101,898,1553,1554,1550,1063,138,1549,936],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-conscience","tag-despair","tag-duel","tag-election","tag-emergency-room","tag-inauguration-2","tag-poetry","tag-suicide","tag-trump-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-TS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}