{"id":133575,"date":"2023-09-02T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133575"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:25:16","slug":"my-cocoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-cocoon\/","title":{"rendered":"MY COCOON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never the pretty one,<br \/>\nOr the popular one,<br \/>\nI was made fun of often.<br \/>\nTeased for how I looked,<br \/>\nHow I talked.<br \/>\nI became extremely self-conscious,<br \/>\nMore aware of my appearance than I should have been.<br \/>\nAt all times,<br \/>\nMy hair was done,<br \/>\nMake-up on and nails freshly painted.<br \/>\nYet,<br \/>\nI still always felt like that ugly, unpopular girl.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t notice the guys paying attention to me,<br \/>\nThe girls who wanted to hang out.<br \/>\nI was the caterpillar who had transformed into a beautiful butterfly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never the pretty one, Or the popular one, I was made fun of often. Teased for how I looked, How I talked. I became extremely self-conscious, More aware of my appearance than I should have been. At all times, My hair was done, Make-up on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772,5765],"class_list":["post-133575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133575","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\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134265,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133575\/revisions\/134265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}