{"id":1385,"date":"2007-03-26T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-03-26T03:55:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T03:55:44","slug":"what_the_doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"What The Doctor Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>He said it doesn&#8217;t look good<br \/>\nhe said it looks bad in fact real bad<br \/>\nhe said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung before<br \/>\nI quit counting them<br \/>\nI said I&#8217;m glad I wouldn&#8217;t want to know<br \/>\nabout any more being there than that<br \/>\nhe said are you a religious man do you kneel down<br \/>\nin forest groves and let yourself ask for help<br \/>\nwhen you come to a waterfall<br \/>\nmist blowing against your face and arms<br \/>\ndo you stop and ask for understanding at those moments<br \/>\nI said not yet but I intend to start today<br \/>\nhe said I&#8217;m real sorry he said<br \/>\nI wish I had some other kind of news to give you<br \/>\nI said Amen and he said something else<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t catch and not knowing what else to do<br \/>\nand not wanting him to have to repeat it<br \/>\nand me to have to fully digest it<br \/>\nI just looked at him<br \/>\nfor a minute and he looked back it was then<br \/>\nI jumped up and shook hands with this man who&#8217;d just given me<br \/>\nsomething no one else on earth had ever given me<br \/>\nI may have even thanked him habit being so strong<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;What The Doctor Said&#8221;, By Ray Carver.<\/p>\n<p>I posted this when Warren Zevon died. I thought of it last week, just before Cathy died, and I haven&#8217;t been able to stop thinking about it. I hope posting it pushes it aside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said it doesn&#8217;t look good he said it looks bad in fact real bad he said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung before I quit counting them I said I&#8217;m glad I wouldn&#8217;t want to know about any more being there than that he said are you a religious man do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}