{"id":117124,"date":"2022-06-25T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117124"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:05:38","slug":"the-match-girl-hour-fourteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-match-girl-hour-fourteen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Match Girl, hour fourteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I read a story of a small girl, lost and alone.<\/p>\n<p>Selling matches by the book, fingers stained black with soot,<\/p>\n<p>ignored on this frozen day, lighting matches to make her way.<\/p>\n<p>And I remember feeling grief for a tale, of a girl so long ago,<\/p>\n<p>lighting matches by the book to retain a lively glow.<\/p>\n<p>And if the moral of this story is, be careful what you dream,<\/p>\n<p>may I continue lighting matches to keep the light burning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I read a story of a small girl, lost and alone. Selling matches by the book, fingers stained black with soot, ignored on this frozen day, lighting matches to make her way. And I remember feeling grief for a tale, of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117124","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117175,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117124\/revisions\/117175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}