{"id":127339,"date":"2023-09-02T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127339"},"modified":"2023-09-27T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:13:57","slug":"hour-1-eight-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-1-eight-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR 1: EIGHT YEARS OLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years old and<br \/>\nFrozen in a candy store<\/p>\n<p>Aromas of cherry<br \/>\nAnd licorice<\/p>\n<p>Wrap around me<br \/>\nLike a corset<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m crushed in<br \/>\nAn avalanche<\/p>\n<p>A flood of colors<br \/>\nA cascade of chocolate<\/p>\n<p>This deluge<br \/>\nThis ocean<\/p>\n<p>This bottomless<br \/>\nPit of possibilities<\/p>\n<p>While my sister<br \/>\nGently without hesitation<\/p>\n<p>Cinderella-esque<br \/>\nChooses just one<\/p>\n<p>Steps to the register<br \/>\nHer eyes neither right nor left<\/p>\n<p>And I feel like shit<br \/>\nWhile my mother says<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHurry up, Leroy.<br \/>\nThere are people behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years old and Frozen in a candy store Aromas of cherry And licorice Wrap around me Like a corset I\u2019m crushed in An avalanche A flood of colors A cascade of chocolate This deluge This ocean This bottomless Pit of possibilities While my sister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127339","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\/1246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145623,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127339\/revisions\/145623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}