{"id":38649,"date":"2017-08-05T20:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38649"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:42:19","slug":"pivotal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/pivotal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She decorated the butterfly net<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like one would expect her to:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pink ribbons tied on the handle.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They fluttered in the gentle breeze<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As she reached out a tiny hand,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And scooped up the small snake.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The science teacher said, \u201cThat is a great specimen\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The English teacher said, \u201cThough she be but tiny, she is fierce\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She donned her graduation gown<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like the other girls did, too,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over her dress and high heels.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And those who remember the pink ribbons<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smile, and watch to see what happens next.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She decorated the butterfly net Like one would expect her to: Pink ribbons tied on the handle. They fluttered in the gentle breeze As she reached out a tiny hand, And scooped up the small snake. The science teacher said, \u201cThat is a great specimen\u201d&#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-38649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38649","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=38649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38655,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38649\/revisions\/38655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}