{"id":102994,"date":"2021-06-27T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102994"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:35","slug":"hour-17-reading-prose-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-17-reading-prose-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17 &#8211; Reading, Prose Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was little, I never got in trouble like the other kids in school. I wasn\u2019t mouthy, I did my homework. But the teachers still had a pet peeve with me just the same. I read too much, and I read above where I was supposed to be. Imagine being told by a teacher that going above and beyond, enjoying learning &#8211; is a Bad Thing. I was six years old. I still never took my head out of a book. When they shoved \u201cage-appropriate\u201d books at me, I just read three in the time I should\u2019ve read one. Reading was a form of escapism for me and even if they didn\u2019t understand, they weren\u2019t going to take it away. So I was only six years old when I realized that our school system is not about the joys of learning, but instead focuses only on conformity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBooks were always safer than people anyway\u201d &#8211; Neil Gaiman<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little, I never got in trouble like the other kids in school. I wasn\u2019t mouthy, I did my homework. But the teachers still had a pet peeve with me just the same. I read too much, and I read above where I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102998,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102994\/revisions\/102998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}