{"id":127617,"date":"2023-09-02T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127617"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:19:54","slug":"something-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/something-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boys and girls of every age<br \/>\nWouldn&#8217;t you rather be something strange?<br \/>\nSomething mystical and mythical,<br \/>\nSomething wild they cannot tame?<\/p>\n<p>Be wild, child.<br \/>\nTake society by the collar<br \/>\nAnd say, &#8220;No, I will not.<br \/>\n&#8220;I will not be your puppet.<br \/>\nI will not sit down and be silent.<br \/>\nI will not be your skyscraper prisoner.<br \/>\nI will not be your cookie cutter child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will forge my own path.<br \/>\nI will be my own self.<br \/>\nI will speak, raise my voice in protest.<br \/>\nI will escape your cities of smoke and mirrors.<br \/>\nI will find the beauty in being wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boys and girls of every age<br \/>\nChoose to be something strange.<br \/>\nSomething more than society dictates.<br \/>\nSomething wild they cannot tame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys and girls of every age Wouldn&#8217;t you rather be something strange? Something mystical and mythical, Something wild they cannot tame? Be wild, child. Take society by the collar And say, &#8220;No, I will not. &#8220;I will not be your puppet. I will not sit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127617","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127999,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127617\/revisions\/127999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}