{"id":42739,"date":"2017-08-06T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42739"},"modified":"2017-08-10T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:22:10","slug":"teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You were formidable,<\/p>\n<p>my first crush.<\/p>\n<p>You surely knew the hold you had on me.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up the chalk pieces, put up<\/p>\n<p>the new bulletin board,<\/p>\n<p>and followed you after class<\/p>\n<p>when i noticed you were crying.<\/p>\n<p>i had no idea what had happened<\/p>\n<p>but you did, your surely knew. Your<\/p>\n<p>husband was in Vietnam. \u00a0Maybe he was<\/p>\n<p>never coming back. i followed you<\/p>\n<p>to your car, my heart breaking on<\/p>\n<p>your behalf. I gave you my most<\/p>\n<p>precious treasure, a 45 of &#8220;Hey Jude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You smiled, and gave it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were formidable, my first crush. You surely knew the hold you had on me. I picked up the chalk pieces, put up the new bulletin board, and followed you after class when i noticed you were crying. i had no idea what had happened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42739","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42739\/revisions\/44041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}