{"id":117057,"date":"2022-06-25T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117057"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:56:33","slug":"i-wish-i-was-a-good-disabled-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/i-wish-i-was-a-good-disabled-person\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish I was a good disabled person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I was a good disabled person<br \/>\nthat knew how to act and knew his place<br \/>\nThat I did not see each day as a challenge<br \/>\nbut rather understood that I should be hidden away<\/p>\n<p>After all this time I still have not learned<br \/>\nand continue to work to achieve my dreams<br \/>\nIn ignorance I maintain a belief<br \/>\nthat I have something of worth to offer<\/p>\n<p>I have been knocked down too many times<br \/>\nto not understand my place is on the bottom<br \/>\nAnd I have been overlooked too often<br \/>\nto attempt to assert that I belong here<\/p>\n<p>It is my disability that defines me<br \/>\nwhat I lack is the totality of my existence<br \/>\nThis world was not meant for me<br \/>\nand I long for the day when I will cow to that fact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I was a good disabled person that knew how to act and knew his place That I did not see each day as a challenge but rather understood that I should be hidden away After all this time I still have not learned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4906,5344,680,4880,2949,5153],"class_list":["post-117057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022fullmarathon","tag-2022hour13","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-disability","tag-thepoet_rajah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117057","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\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117068,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117057\/revisions\/117068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}