{"id":6067,"date":"2017-04-01T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2023-07-05T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T18:09:17","slug":"the-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=6067","title":{"rendered":"The carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot_20220410-1733562-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot_20220410-1733562-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot_20220410-1733562-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The carrier<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday<br \/>\nI caught a nasty<br \/>\nSpring happiness.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure how.<br \/>\nSomeone<br \/>\nmust have smiled<br \/>\nstraight into my soul.<br \/>\nI felt suddenly hot and cold,<br \/>\nwarm and fuzzy,<br \/>\nI saw rainbows<br \/>\non a rainy day,<br \/>\nI sang for no reason<br \/>\nand smiled to unknown people<br \/>\non the street.<br \/>\nIt seems to be<br \/>\nhighly contagious<br \/>\nand to have a very short<br \/>\nincubation period.<br \/>\nUnaware<br \/>\nI kissed my love<br \/>\nand I\u2019ve contaminated him<br \/>\nfor he came home<br \/>\ndancing in the rain<br \/>\nfilling my arms<br \/>\nwith all the white lilacs<br \/>\nstolen from the city.<br \/>\nHe might have been<br \/>\nweaker than I<br \/>\nfor he started<br \/>\nto write poems,<br \/>\nto tell me \u201cI love you\u201d<br \/>\nevery second hour,<br \/>\nto praise my food<br \/>\n(I\u2019m not so much of a cook),<br \/>\nto find me interesting.<br \/>\nIt is terrible!<br \/>\nMy \u00a0happiness<br \/>\ntriggered in him<br \/>\na chain reaction<br \/>\nand strange side effects.<br \/>\nCould it be genetic<br \/>\nI wonder?<br \/>\nI shudder to think about<br \/>\nmy children,<br \/>\nmy grandchildren,<br \/>\nmy great grandchildren<br \/>\nexposed to happiness<br \/>\nsimply because<br \/>\nI was the carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Vintage print<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6094,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}