{"id":42079,"date":"2017-08-06T06:19:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42079"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:19:32","slug":"two-red-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/two-red-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Red Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

What did I learn?<\/p>\n

I wandered afraid,<\/p>\n

they didn’t like me<\/p>\n

they never have.<\/p>\n

Two red checkers<\/p>\n

they fell down the stairs<\/p>\n

the class would then howl<\/p>\n

as they dragged us away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They threatened to call them<\/p>\n

my friend would plead,<\/p>\n

for only two checkers<\/p>\n

to complete a set.<\/p>\n

My heart pounded<\/p>\n

then I got hit<\/p>\n

by one stupid bitch<\/p>\n

after I hit her.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’d been provoked<\/p>\n

a bully she was,<\/p>\n

she left me in tears<\/p>\n

for two red checkers.<\/p>\n

They didn’t like me<\/p>\n

I meant no harm<\/p>\n

driven to tears<\/p>\n

backed to a wall.e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What did I learn? I wandered afraid, they didn’t like me they never have. Two red checkers they fell down the stairs the class would then howl as they dragged us away.   They threatened to call them my friend would plead, for only two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42079","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\/659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42189,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42079\/revisions\/42189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}