{"id":46297,"date":"2019-06-22T09:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46297"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:07:17","slug":"the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sweating, clammy, nervous. My heart beats quickly, loudly. I\u2019m sure they can hear it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are just teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am going to throw up. My stomach churns, roils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemain calm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am getting light headed. Breath in, out, in, out. Quick snatches through my nose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are in control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am standing in front of 36 judging eyes, assessing my trustworthiness.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"atwho-query\">\u201c<\/span>Show no fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am smiling. Teeth bared, lips spread, eyes sparkling, smiling.<\/p>\n<p>I laugh.<\/p>\n<p>They smile back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sweating, clammy, nervous. My heart beats quickly, loudly. I\u2019m sure they can hear it. \u201cThey are just teenagers.\u201d I am going to throw up. My stomach churns, roils. \u201cRemain calm.\u201d I am getting light headed. Breath in, out, in, out. Quick snatches through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297","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\/1288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51464,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions\/51464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}