{"id":117711,"date":"2022-06-25T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117711"},"modified":"2022-06-27T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:32:23","slug":"hour-fourteen-sleepless-nights-mary-pecaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-fourteen-sleepless-nights-mary-pecaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fourteen Sleepless Nights Mary Pecaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hour Fourteen –\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sleepless Nights\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary Pecaut<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Every night before bed,<\/span><\/p>\n

Mom and I snuggled and read<\/span><\/p>\n

fairytales from other lands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lessons learned<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t readily<\/span><\/p>\n

understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I couldn’t sleep<\/span><\/p>\n

when Jack and Jill\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

tumbled down the hill<\/span><\/p>\n

or even less when Gretel and Hansel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

lost their way in the forest, trusted a stranger who treated\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

them well. The Witch! She caged them, enslaved them<\/span><\/p>\n

and shoved ’em in the oven.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such were the Grimm tales of my childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As an adult, the stories are clear. The world is a tale of child<\/span><\/p>\n

abandonment, enslavement, cannibalism, and murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Little Red Riding Hood skips through the woods –<\/span><\/p>\n

her basket full of muffins – a fine treat for Grandma<\/span><\/p>\n

who she discovers in bed<\/span><\/p>\n

devoured by a wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n

What have we concluded? Grandma shouldn’t live alone secluded<\/span><\/p>\n

or b<\/span>e careful of those <\/span>disguised as someone we love.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And what the F–k was Goldilocks doing in the Three Bears Home?<\/span><\/p>\n

It was never about \u2018getting things just right\u2019. For God\u2019s sake,<\/span><\/p>\n

your story is blown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Respect the privacy of others!<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re to believe that all is hunky dory?<\/p>\n

Rest assured, if the Bears owned\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

guns, it would have been<\/span><\/p>\n

a very different story.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I dreamed that I might be Scheherazade<\/span><\/p>\n

famed storyteller of The One Thousand and One Nights\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

who taught me – to tell a story well\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

just might save your life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hour Fourteen –\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sleepless Nights\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary Pecaut   Every night before bed, Mom and I snuggled and read fairytales from other lands. Lessons learned I didn’t readily understand.   I couldn’t sleep when Jack and Jill\u00a0 tumbled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117711","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\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123911,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117711\/revisions\/123911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}