{"id":128112,"date":"2023-09-02T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128112"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:48:26","slug":"poem-two-the-fifteen-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-two-the-fifteen-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Two: The Fifteen Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She knew what would happen and guessed at her wants,<\/p>\n<p>They must be one and the same:<\/p>\n<p>Find a good school, find a good man, take a new role,<\/p>\n<p>Take a new name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She strove for stage one, twelve years since age four,<\/p>\n<p>Studying, perfecting the grade:<\/p>\n<p>no late night parties, no stupid friends, always smart choices,<\/p>\n<p>always what&#8217;s safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>College was looming when he asked for a kiss,<\/p>\n<p>Shocking her breath away,<\/p>\n<p>Pause just a moment, pause for the feeling, but she&#8217;s not his,<\/p>\n<p>but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>she won&#8217;t stay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One kiss on her lips and the college years done,<\/p>\n<p>What happens when the plan falls through?<\/p>\n<p>Stop waiting for him? Stop wondering if? Find your own want?<\/p>\n<p>Find a whole you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She knew what would happen and guessed at her wants, They must be one and the same: Find a good school, find a good man, take a new role, Take a new name. &nbsp; She strove for stage one, twelve years since age four, Studying,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128112","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\/5224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128406,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128112\/revisions\/128406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}