{"id":121818,"date":"2022-06-26T07:21:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121818"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:21:26","slug":"divergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/divergent\/","title":{"rendered":"Divergent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a boy wants to flap his hands<br \/>\nJump up and down<br \/>\nChew<br \/>\nAlone.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t really alone in the city.<br \/>\nAutism attracts attention.<br \/>\nDifferences do that.<br \/>\nAttention usually means stares<br \/>\nSometimes glares<br \/>\nScowls<br \/>\nThe worst are comments.<\/p>\n<p>1 in 100 comments will be confirmation.<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;m autistic too.<br \/>\nMy sister is autistic.<br \/>\nI get it.<br \/>\nMost don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t necessarily need to.<br \/>\nIt is great when folks understand<br \/>\nHave basic knowledge<br \/>\nBut just allowing our existence<br \/>\nWithout intervention<br \/>\nIgnoring what you don&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nWithout comment.<br \/>\nThat is a gift.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t explain all day<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want to<br \/>\nAnd you know,<br \/>\nThe autism goes where we do.<\/p>\n<p>No, oh in public now,<br \/>\nAutism powers deactivate!<br \/>\nAlways being autistic can become always on display<br \/>\nLike the zoo animals<br \/>\nHow exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>Am I right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a boy wants to flap his hands Jump up and down Chew Alone. There isn&#8217;t really alone in the city. Autism attracts attention. Differences do that. Attention usually means stares Sometimes glares Scowls The worst are comments. 1 in 100 comments will be confirmation&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121818","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121879,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121818\/revisions\/121879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}