{"id":12998,"date":"2015-06-14T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2015-06-14T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:30:19","slug":"misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/misunderstood\/","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you have no trouble realizing<br \/>\nthat people occasionally misunderstand each other&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, I do!, she replied<br \/>\nShe could not fathom<br \/>\nthe thought of being<br \/>\nand feeling<br \/>\nmisunderstood<\/p>\n<p>As hard as she tried<br \/>\nShe found it troublesome<br \/>\nto wrap her mind<br \/>\naround that idea<br \/>\nof why she would<br \/>\nor any one else<br \/>\nbe part of someone&#8217;s misunderstanding<\/p>\n<p>She lived her life<br \/>\nbeing straight forward<br \/>\nin what she said<br \/>\nespecially in what she did<br \/>\nshe figured every one else<br \/>\nlived their life<br \/>\nwith that standard in mind<\/p>\n<p>Pondering that thought<br \/>\nShe realized<br \/>\nthat she is part<br \/>\nof the masses<br \/>\nAs taxing as the idea<br \/>\nmay be<br \/>\nShe couldn&#8217;t help<br \/>\nbut agree<br \/>\nthat every one<br \/>\nat some point<br \/>\nis misunderstood<br \/>\nto a certain degree<\/p>\n<p>-Angelica Villarruel    <\/p>\n<p>*<em>The first two lines of the poem comes from the book &#8220;Mindwise&#8221; by Nicolas Epley *<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you have no trouble realizing that people occasionally misunderstand each other&#8221; &#8220;Actually, I do!, she replied She could not fathom the thought of being and feeling misunderstood As hard as she tried She found it troublesome to wrap her mind around that idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13028,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/13028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}