{"id":121829,"date":"2022-06-26T07:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121829"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:16:49","slug":"hour-23-little-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-23-little-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 23: Little Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I got you<br \/>\nI was small and so was the edition<br \/>\nA little old, oh how I loved the texture<br \/>\nAnd the slightly off colour<\/p>\n<p>I remember you had a special place<br \/>\nYou never went to the bookshelf<br \/>\nBut stayed right there\u2014<br \/>\nunder my pillow case<\/p>\n<p>And I read, didn&#8217;t I?<br \/>\nI read you every night<br \/>\nMarking my favourite quotes<br \/>\nWith one of my prettiest pens.<\/p>\n<p>I learned so much from you<br \/>\nAbout kindness, and family, and love<br \/>\nI know I laughed and cried<br \/>\nAlongside the March sisters.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to play Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress as well<br \/>\nAnd let go of my bundles in the end<br \/>\nWanted to write like Jo did<br \/>\nAnd maybe get published as well!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know when it happened<br \/>\nIf I grew old enough or you did<br \/>\nTo actually go and stay behind<br \/>\nA hidden corner of the bookshelf.<\/p>\n<p>But even if our rendezvous did end<br \/>\nI would never forget<br \/>\nWhen I got you and for me<br \/>\nYou will always have a special place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I got you I was small and so was the edition A little old, oh how I loved the texture And the slightly off colour I remember you had a special place You never went to the bookshelf But stayed right there\u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121829","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\/121829","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121854,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121829\/revisions\/121854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}