{"id":28881,"date":"2016-08-14T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28881"},"modified":"2016-08-14T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:01:13","slug":"poem-21-letter-to-shaunton-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-21-letter-to-shaunton-the-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 21 &#8212; Letter to Shaunton the Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear LadyOfPoetry,<\/p>\n<p>I know you are well. Sometimes when I observe you in privacy,  I notice many things and you can probably tell. Like you didn&#8217;t smile and make eye contact with the gentleman who held the door for you. I noticed you waved and smiled at the cute, dreamy eyed little girl, too. Don&#8217;t you wish your dreamy eyes were mocked in a face as precious as that? Or did you stop having Barbie dreams the moment your struggles grew fat?<\/p>\n<p>Life challenged you in a different direction I see. I hope you&#8217;re not mad and blaming me. Continue composing great thoughts and developing the writer you want to be. Don&#8217;t permit self to grow and regret life entirely. Thank you for being so sweet and sharing the courage to go on. So much has tested you. And you&#8217;re blessed not to be torn.<\/p>\n<p>You are a role model<br \/>\n Many women don&#8217;t want to admit.  Like how you help when you don&#8217;t have to,  and care more than a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Everything will be all right,  lady. God has greater plans in store if you care. Smile, love,  and strive to succeed.<br \/>\nEvery hour loses many seconds indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear LadyOfPoetry, I know you are well. Sometimes when I observe you in privacy, I notice many things and you can probably tell. Like you didn&#8217;t smile and make eye contact with the gentleman who held the door for you. I noticed you waved and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28881","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\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28886,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28881\/revisions\/28886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}