{"id":2981,"date":"2016-10-19T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:24:33","slug":"digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2016\/10\/19\/digging\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol class=\"poem\">\n<li>Just keep digging, digging, digging.<\/li>\n<li>Dirt still\u00a0falling, falling, falling.<\/li>\n<li>Top keeps rising, rising, rising.<\/li>\n<li>Voice still\u00a0calling, calling, calling.<\/li>\n<li>Hole keeps growing, growing, growing.<\/li>\n<li>Arms still aching, aching, aching.<\/li>\n<li>Sweat keeps dripping, dripping, dripping.<\/li>\n<li>Legs still shaking, shaking, shaking.<\/li>\n<li>Eyes keep fighting, fighting, fighting.<\/li>\n<li>Lungs still\u00a0gasping, gasping, gasping.<\/li>\n<li>Heart keep trying, trying, trying.<\/li>\n<li>Voice\u00a0still rasping, rasping, rasping.<\/li>\n<li>Fingers clawing, clawing, clawing.<\/li>\n<li>Muscles stinging, stinging, stinging.<\/li>\n<li>Ears keep ringing, ringing, ringing.<\/li>\n<li>Just keep digging, digging, digging.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just keep digging, digging, digging. Dirt still\u00a0falling, falling, falling. Top keeps rising, rising, rising. Voice still\u00a0calling, calling, calling. Hole keeps growing, growing, growing. Arms still aching, aching, aching. Sweat keeps dripping, dripping, dripping. Legs still shaking, shaking, shaking. Eyes keep fighting, fighting, fighting. Lungs still\u00a0gasping, gasping, gasping. Heart keep trying, trying, trying. Voice\u00a0still rasping, rasping, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-crisis-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/sky-ditch-eye-hole.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4NkW7-digging","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2972,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2017\/05\/16\/collision\/","url_meta":{"origin":2981,"position":0},"title":"Collision","author":"Kim Siever","date":"16 May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Implicitly, complicit he perpetuates toxicity; He balks the talk while talks the talk because for him, talk is the tea. 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