{"id":133141,"date":"2023-09-02T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133141"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:01:48","slug":"that-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/that-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"That girl."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See that girl,<br \/>\nThe one with the smile?<br \/>\nDo you know she&#8217;s been hurting for a while?<br \/>\nShe was the butterfly who had her wings pricked<br \/>\nShe is the rose that burned<br \/>\nShe cried herself to sleepless nights<br \/>\nJust wishing it would stop<br \/>\nShe watched her heart in pieces<br \/>\nWatched them chisel away from her<br \/>\nShe watched her hands bleed<br \/>\nFrom all the cuts and tear<br \/>\nShe just wanted a warm embrace<br \/>\nAnd someone to wipe her tear.<br \/>\nYou see that girl,<br \/>\nWho keeps everyone smiling?<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the girl who lost her smile.<br \/>\nNow she&#8217;s standing beside the window,<br \/>\nPlaying memories of<br \/>\nHow a mere five year old<br \/>\nLost her happiness.<br \/>\nNow she stands here,<br \/>\nTrying to voice the voiceless<br \/>\nTrying to speak for people called weak<br \/>\nThose who are ridiculed everyday<br \/>\nThe ones who have nothing to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that girl, The one with the smile? Do you know she&#8217;s been hurting for a while? She was the butterfly who had her wings pricked She is the rose that burned She cried herself to sleepless nights Just wishing it would stop She watched&#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-133141","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\/133141","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=133141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133159,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133141\/revisions\/133159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}