{"id":128702,"date":"2023-09-02T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128702"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:38:57","slug":"of-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/of-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Of growing up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world suddenly weighs on my shoulder<br \/>\nStrangers that turned friends<br \/>\nHave gone back to being strangers<br \/>\nAnd friends now, think I&#8217;m na\u00efve.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a sudden nudge<br \/>\nfrom everyone around,<br \/>\nto get work done faster<br \/>\nin ways better than before.<\/p>\n<p>But buds are to bloom on their own<br \/>\nNot to be pricked this way.<br \/>\nIf it were meant to be like this<br \/>\nwhy plant the seed anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world suddenly weighs on my shoulder Strangers that turned friends Have gone back to being strangers And friends now, think I&#8217;m na\u00efve. There&#8217;s a sudden nudge from everyone around, to get work done faster in ways better than before. But buds are to bloom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772],"class_list":["post-128702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128702","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\/5236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129378,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128702\/revisions\/129378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}