{"id":46451,"date":"2019-06-22T09:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46451"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:22:15","slug":"the-girl-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-girl-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>THE GIRL NEXT DOOR<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<\/p>\n<p>You watch me everyday, beautiful to behold.<br \/>\nBut you don\u2019t see me.<\/p>\n<p>We chat about hundreds of insubstantial things.<br \/>\nBut you don\u2019t hear me.<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<\/p>\n<p>Because we are neighbors, you assume I\u2019m just like you.<br \/>\nBut you don\u2019t know me.<\/p>\n<p>You envy my picture perfect life.<br \/>\nBut you don\u2019t really understand.<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve shared many an evening\u2019s tea on the front porch.<br \/>\nYou have been to every backyard barbeque I\u2019ve held.<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve strolled away the springtime in the gardens.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve walked me to the shining aluminum threshold of my front door.<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<\/p>\n<p>But my home you\u2019ve never entered.<br \/>\nDo you wonder why?<\/p>\n<p>My walls are built solid and strong.<br \/>\nWhat could be inside?<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<\/p>\n<p>My windows hidden by steel blinds drawn.<br \/>\nWhat secrets do they hide?<\/p>\n<p>The doors always locked, all entrances blocked.<br \/>\nDoes inside see a slant of light?<\/p>\n<p>I am the girl next door.<br \/>\nAnd you\u2019ll never know what I\u2019m capable of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GIRL NEXT DOOR I am the girl next door. You watch me everyday, beautiful to behold. But you don\u2019t see me. We chat about hundreds of insubstantial things. But you don\u2019t hear me. I am the girl next door. Because we are neighbors, you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46451","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\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46461,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46451\/revisions\/46461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}