{"id":2403,"date":"2023-06-25T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2023-06-25T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:25:04","slug":"swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2016 Spring Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>By Amanda Henderson, &#8217;16<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>He knew that I loved to swim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So he pushed me into the water and I felt my body jolt forward, the split second of sick anticipation; cool chlorinated liquid slapped at my skin, and I was consumed by darkness. But only briefly. I dragged myself up, protesting the moment I emerged. He laughed and I laughed and I already felt the sun beginning to dry the droplets on my cheeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pushes me into the water and I hardly have enough time to scream before I am taken into the unforgiving arms of the dark and swirling lake. I push myself up, feeling the slick seaweed curling around my ankles, but this time he holds me down. I claw at his wrists, hopelessly splashing about in the water. He&#8217;s a smart boy, though, and I know he paid close attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because he knew that I loved to swim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Henderson, &#8217;16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}