{"id":46704,"date":"2019-06-22T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46704"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:40:53","slug":"plight-of-a-teenage-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/plight-of-a-teenage-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One &#8211; Plight of a Teenage Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48074\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-3054736_1920-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-3054736_1920-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-3054736_1920-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-3054736_1920-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-3054736_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Soorelis at Pixabay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I am happy, then I am sad;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I am young but feel so old<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Then I am old but feel so young;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Sometimes, I am \u201cjust me\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Other times, I am everyone<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I could possibly think to be<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">When I\u2019m awake, I am \u201cjust me\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">But in my dreams, I am \u201creal me\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">In my dreams I am Elven Princess<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">When I\u2019m awake I just pretend to be\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">I am chrysalis waiting to come into being<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Soon, I\u2019ll be able to say: \u201cI am Butterfly\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Antoinette LeRoux \u00a9 2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy of Soorelis at Pixabay &nbsp; I am happy, then I am sad; I am young but feel so old Then I am old but feel so young; Sometimes, I am \u201cjust me\u201d Other times, I am everyone I could possibly think to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48112,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46704\/revisions\/48112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}