{"id":113358,"date":"2022-06-25T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113358"},"modified":"2022-06-29T05:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T09:24:55","slug":"hour-8-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-8-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8: table of four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>four pebbles<br \/>\nall in hues of<br \/>\na marine blue<br \/>\nsit on teacher&#8217;s<br \/>\ntable<\/p>\n<p>students go<br \/>\nupto her<br \/>\nand learn<br \/>\nto count in fours<\/p>\n<p>four in one set<br \/>\nnestled in an apple cup<br \/>\nis four<br \/>\nand si it goes<\/p>\n<p>till it&#8217;s my turn<br \/>\nand i say four two&#8217;s<br \/>\nare eight<br \/>\nfour three&#8217;s are twelve<\/p>\n<p>when teacher nods<br \/>\nencouraging me<br \/>\ni say four four&#8217;s are<br \/>\nand stop<\/p>\n<p>a scorpion is crawling there<br \/>\namong the pebbles<br \/>\nand one more and<br \/>\nthere&#8217;re more <\/p>\n<p>i point to one<br \/>\nangry red scorp<br \/>\nand teacher screams<br \/>\nand throws out<\/p>\n<p>the pebbles<br \/>\nscorpions and all<br \/>\ni smile but not too much<br \/>\ni&#8217;d gathered the creatures<\/p>\n<p>in break time<br \/>\nand had released them<br \/>\nthere to play their role<br \/>\nas distractor main<\/p>\n<p>we had the rest of the day off<br \/>\nas teacher was nervously clearing<br \/>\nthe classroom checking<br \/>\nfor scorpions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>four pebbles all in hues of a marine blue sit on teacher&#8217;s table students go upto her and learn to count in fours four in one set nestled in an apple cup is four and si it goes till it&#8217;s my turn and i say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113358","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\/3670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124234,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113358\/revisions\/124234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}