{"id":861,"date":"2025-02-27T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalaniperry.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:49:49","slug":"the-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalaniperry.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"The salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you fall when it\u2019s inevitable. Falling when you stumble is so predictable. The shoestring. The inevitable. Falling when you know you\u2019re falling.<\/p>\n<p>Brush off the arms pulling you perpendicular to the ground. &#8220;Brush off\u201d has more intent than what happened. Shrug off is a better choice of words. Ignore the whispers. Ignore the screams. Ignore the blood. Blood coagulated. Coagulated. It made the effort to stop. This is not that. This is, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up to a dog licking your knee because it (your knee, not the dog) was still bleeding. He liked the salt. (I type that, and I suddenly find it very funny.) He liked the salt. Not table salt. Not sodium chloride. We iodize it because, by itself, it is not enough. This is all a metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you fall when it\u2019s inevitable. Falling when you stumble is so predictable. The shoestring. The inevitable. Falling when you know you\u2019re falling. Brush off the arms pulling you perpendicular to the ground. &#8220;Brush off\u201d has more intent than what happened. Shrug off is a better choice of words. Ignore the whispers. 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