{"id":135993,"date":"2023-09-02T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135993"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:27:47","slug":"1pm-poem-11-at-the-clinic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/1pm-poem-11-at-the-clinic-school\/","title":{"rendered":"1pm. Poem 11. At the Clinic School"},"content":{"rendered":"

1pm. Poem 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the Clinic School<\/span><\/p>\n

On any ordinary day <\/span>
\non an ordinary street <\/span>
\nin our ordinary town <\/span>
\nthird floor of a very <\/span>
\nordinary, beige building…<\/span><\/p>\n

a child with no speech <\/span>
\nsqueaks out, “Ooooo” <\/span>
\nfor the first time, <\/span>
\nanother chooses to pick up a book<\/span>
\ninstead of flinging himself <\/span>
\ninto a wall, <\/span>
\na little one <\/span>
\npoints to a photo of her mother,<\/span>
\nand another of her dog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Others try new foods,<\/span>
\nshare a game with a friend, <\/span>
\nlook into the eyes <\/span>
\nof their parents, <\/span>
\nchoose to breathe <\/span>
\ninstead of scream, <\/span>
\nwave goodbye <\/span>
\nat the end of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

On any ordinary day <\/span>
\nbehind very ordinary doors <\/span>
\nnot so ordinary people <\/span>
\nteach anything but ordinary children <\/span>
\nextraordinary skills… <\/span><\/p>\n

and miracles happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1pm. Poem 11. At the Clinic School On any ordinary day on an ordinary street in our ordinary town third floor of a very ordinary, beige building… a child with no speech squeaks out, “Ooooo” for the first time, another chooses to pick up a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135993","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136015,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135993\/revisions\/136015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}