{"id":7829,"date":"2006-06-27T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:20:53","slug":"no-longer-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/no-longer-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"No Longer Breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I await<br>to awake,<br>from this odd dream,<br>from this long stream,<br>filled with memories,<br>of my family.<br>I want to leave this place,<br>I want the pain erased.<br>All is silent, all is dark,<br>I can&#8217;t seem to disembark.<br>There is a light in the distance,<br>but I feel it slipping away.<br>Here, in the depths of my subconscious,<br>there is no such thing as night or day.<br>I can feel the waves crashing into me,<br>I feel like I might soon become unbound.<br>The temperature seems to be zero degrees,<br>the chill becomes profound as I am sucked down.<br>Spinning in circles, I am stuck in this whirlpool,<br>hurting me, swallowing me, the water is cruel.<br>Seeing through this amazingly clear water,<br>I glance down at the bottom of the abyss.<br>I cry out at the sight of my daughter,<br>and the others that I have sorely missed.<br>The whirlpool then changes direction,<br>forcing me upwards, it spirals out,<br>and then I see my reflection,<br>the image sharpening my doubt,<br>the doctors cannot save me,<br>but they want to set me free.<br>My slumber, so prolonged,<br>people think is just wrong.<br>All their hope is lost.<br>Too great is the cost.<br>No more dreaming,<br>No more breathing.<br>My life ceased,<br>I&#8217;ve found peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awaitto awake,from this odd dream,from this long stream,filled with memories,of my family.I want to leave this place,I want the pain erased.All is silent, all is dark,I can&#8217;t seem to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfpup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}