{"id":113496,"date":"2022-06-25T17:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113496"},"modified":"2022-06-26T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:13:12","slug":"hide-n-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hide-n-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide-n-seek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hide and seek\u2014<br \/>\nthree kids making the most<br \/>\nof a new apartment,<br \/>\nboxes everywhere<\/p>\n<p>Who could have guessed something<br \/>\nso soft, could turn so<br \/>\nscary.<\/p>\n<p>Youngest child,<br \/>\nsqueegee in hand,<br \/>\njumps off a box and<br \/>\nonto her older brother\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>Blood rushes and the<br \/>\ngame is quickly disbanded.<\/p>\n<p>He was okay.<br \/>\nA memory was made,<br \/>\none we would joke about for years,<\/p>\n<p>even if tinged with fear.<\/p>\n<p>We moved forward,<br \/>\nthe fear was forgotten,<br \/>\nlife went on. <\/p>\n<p>Had I known what was to come,<br \/>\nI might have lived in those<br \/>\nproceeding moments<br \/>\njust a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>Had I known he would be taken,<br \/>\nnot by a squeegee,<br \/>\nbut by cruel reality,<br \/>\nI would have clung to my brother <\/p>\n<p>much<br \/>\nmore<br \/>\ntightly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hide and seek\u2014 three kids making the most of a new apartment, boxes everywhere Who could have guessed something so soft, could turn so scary. Youngest child, squeegee in hand, jumps off a box and onto her older brother\u2019s head. Blood rushes and the game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113496","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113500,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113496\/revisions\/113500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}