{"id":49527,"date":"2019-06-22T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49527"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:50:14","slug":"poem-6-flutters-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-6-flutters-of-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 6: &#8220;Flutters of Growth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;Flutters of Growth&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>it hurts.<\/p>\n<div>to peel back the cocoon<\/div>\n<div>wriggling past what&#8217;s safe<\/div>\n<div>into unknown adventure.<\/div>\n<div>but staying curled up into nothingness<\/div>\n<div>also delivers nothing.<\/div>\n<div>this is how you discover your ugly duckling<\/div>\n<div>so stretch through the pain with wobbly new\u00a0 limbs<\/div>\n<div>and gingerly open trembling, awkward wings<\/div>\n<div>leaning greatly into the allowance of the vulnerable<\/div>\n<div>for this is the most effective way<\/div>\n<div>to comprehend the air.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Flutters of Growth&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook it hurts. to peel back the cocoon wriggling past what&#8217;s safe into unknown adventure. but staying curled up into nothingness also delivers nothing. this is how you discover your ugly duckling so stretch through the pain with wobbly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49527","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49539,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49527\/revisions\/49539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}