{"id":19819,"date":"2016-08-13T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19819"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:47:15","slug":"to-my-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/to-my-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"To My Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To My Sister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">12 years old, and your long, thin legs kick up in the air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cartwheeling over the grass,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The long lines of your body seem to be continually reaching towards the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh, how I hope you will always be reaching up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The world will try to say you aren\u2019t beautiful&#8230;but what do they know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your beauty goes deeper than an ocean, more enchanting than the pearl found at the bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your eyes are as blue as pieces of the sky you are reaching for and your hands are creators, creators of all sorts of wonderful things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never forget that you hold the key to joy inside of you. Never forget that you can create reality from the gossamer web of \u00a0your dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fly, darling girl, fly away and show the world the beauty that you are. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To My Sister. &nbsp; 12 years old, and your long, thin legs kick up in the air, Cartwheeling over the grass, The long lines of your body seem to be continually reaching towards the sky. Oh, how I hope you will always be reaching up&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819","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\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20027,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19819\/revisions\/20027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}