{"id":47184,"date":"2019-06-22T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47184"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:37:30","slug":"at-sixteen-2-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/at-sixteen-2-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"At Sixteen   [2 &#8211; #magic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At sixteen the world was a song and the song was exciting<br \/>\nevery day fresh, everything happening<\/p>\n<p>The morning dew on the grass and the sun on the street were pure magic<br \/>\nand we shot out of our beds just go to out and see.<\/p>\n<p>We went to school, then college, and got jobs and husbands and wives<br \/>\nwho left us with debt and tears<br \/>\nWe dragged ourselves out of our beds and drank coffee and then<br \/>\nWe dragged ourselves out of our cubicles and drank cocktails.<\/p>\n<p>The morning dew wrecked our shoes and the sun was too hot<br \/>\nand our eyes were tired.<\/p>\n<p>Until one day the boy from sixteen<br \/>\nshowed up at my door<br \/>\nand kissed me hello.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*with lyric quoted from Les Mis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At sixteen the world was a song and the song was exciting every day fresh, everything happening The morning dew on the grass and the sun on the street were pure magic and we shot out of our beds just go to out and see&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184","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\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47382,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184\/revisions\/47382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}