{"id":39722,"date":"2017-08-05T23:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39722"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:30:55","slug":"nobody-talks-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nobody-talks-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Talks To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">There are people that nobody talks to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">People like Allison, Greta, and Stan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Allison lost both her arms in a car wreck. Losing arms isn&#8217;t like losing a leg. Wheelchair-bound is a common disability. Not easy to live with but regularly seen. Armless girls, well, nobody talks to these.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Having outgrown her girlish figure, skin&#8217;s luster gone, replaced with wrinkling. Greta doesn&#8217;t know how to exist in her body anymore. The fears run deep, who will I be when nobody talks to me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Stan&#8217;s heard voices his whole life. They come to him whispered, but not from another world. The thoughts are from those around him, anyone he touches, who then thinks a word. Nobody touches Stan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There are people that nobody talks to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Like Allison, Greta, and Stan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39803 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0615-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0615-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0615-768x790.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0615-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0615-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>* Poem promoted by randomly drawn Storymatic cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people that nobody talks to. People like Allison, Greta, and Stan. Allison lost both her arms in a car wreck. Losing arms isn&#8217;t like losing a leg. Wheelchair-bound is a common disability. Not easy to live with but regularly seen. Armless girls, well,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":39803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2581,1628,2418],"class_list":["post-39722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-nobody-talks-to","tag-prompt","tag-storymatic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722","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\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39828,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722\/revisions\/39828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}