{"id":32419,"date":"2017-08-05T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32419"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:50:00","slug":"hush-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hush-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Hush, Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They &#8212; the ubiquitous, omnipresent <em>they<\/em> &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>Told me<br \/>\nLoudly, and in no uncertain terms<br \/>\nThat I was not sad.<br \/>\nThat I was better off, really<br \/>\n<em>(so much better off, honey, really)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8212; the all-knowing, all-seeing <em>they<\/em> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Told me<br \/>\nFrequently, so that I wouldn\u2019t <em>(couldn\u2019t ever)<\/em> forget<br \/>\nThat I was chosen.<br \/>\nThat it was for the best, really<br \/>\n<em>(so much better off, don\u2019t be ungrateful, really)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8212; the powers-that-be <em>they<\/em> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Told me<br \/>\nHow I felt<br \/>\nHow I didn\u2019t feel<br \/>\nHow I was allowed to feel<br \/>\n<em>(I\u2019m better off, I won\u2019t be ungrateful, really.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>They<br \/>\nTold me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But I am no longer a child<br \/>\nAnd I will no longer be hushed<br \/>\nI will whisper it into the dark<br \/>\nUntil someday<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nWill tell <\/p>\n<p><strong>Them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They &#8212; the ubiquitous, omnipresent they &#8212; Told me Loudly, and in no uncertain terms That I was not sad. That I was better off, really (so much better off, honey, really). They &#8212; the all-knowing, all-seeing they &#8212; Told me Frequently, so that I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419","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\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35693,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419\/revisions\/35693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}