{"id":134417,"date":"2023-09-02T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134417"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:34:53","slug":"strict-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/strict-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Strict Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strict Parents<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As I reminisce about my childhood.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help but hear the phrases:<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t do that! That\u2019s not what I taught you.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t go to dances.\u201d<\/p>\n

One phrase I would hear<\/p>\n

when the school dances came and went.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I would feel sad and left out,<\/p>\n

when my friends listened to<\/p>\n

Whitney Houston<\/p>\n

Bonnie Tyler,<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that country?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t listen to that kind of music here!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My mom took my cassette player<\/p>\n

and gave a lecture on how it\u2019s sinful.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019d apologize and return the tapes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A few years later,<\/p>\n

my brothers ran outside,<\/p>\n

I\u2019d follow them a few steps<\/p>\n

only to be yanked back.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a girl. You don\u2019t do those kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I would watch all my cousins laugh until the sunset,<\/p>\n

and come back with wide smiles<\/p>\n

and new inside jokes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Looking back<\/p>\n

I remember how I wanted to run wild,<\/p>\n

how I wanted to be free.<\/p>\n

How I just wanted for once not to wear a dress<\/p>\n

and let my clothes get caked with mud.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Just once<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to be put in a role.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I wanted to speak freely.<\/p>\n

But with strict parents,<\/p>\n

that was impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strict Parents   As I reminisce about my childhood. I can\u2019t help but hear the phrases: \u201cDon\u2019t do that! That\u2019s not what I taught you.\u201d   \u201cDon\u2019t go to dances.\u201d One phrase I would hear when the school dances came and went.   I would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134417","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134427,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134417\/revisions\/134427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}