{"id":139220,"date":"2023-09-03T00:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139220"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:27:52","slug":"16-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/16-special\/","title":{"rendered":"16   Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was told chosen was special<\/p>\n<p>No mention of given away<\/p>\n<p>My younger sister also chosen<\/p>\n<p>Opted out at thirty-one<\/p>\n<p>Checked out without a word<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not feeling special<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New sibs appeared with DNA<\/p>\n<p>To discover that my generous<\/p>\n<p>Mother had kept her first<\/p>\n<p>Sent me off to be chosen<\/p>\n<p>And had another child to keep<\/p>\n<p>I continue to look for special<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As my youngest granddaughter<\/p>\n<p>Announced to all that she<\/p>\n<p>Was from another planet<\/p>\n<p>I soon realized that this must<\/p>\n<p>Be my true origin and reason<\/p>\n<p>To finally believe I&#8217;m special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was told chosen was special No mention of given away My younger sister also chosen Opted out at thirty-one Checked out without a word Apparently not feeling special &nbsp; New sibs appeared with DNA To discover that my generous Mother had kept her first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139220","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139253,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139220\/revisions\/139253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}