{"id":52271,"date":"2019-06-22T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52271"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:31:22","slug":"march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Happy birthday to you&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nSung by friends and family<br \/>\nSmiling awkwardly<br \/>\nSitting there and waiting<br \/>\nWatching as the flame eats more and more of his wax meal<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy birthday to you..&#8221;<br \/>\n11 going on to 12<br \/>\nOne last year of being a kid<br \/>\nBefore the teenage years<br \/>\nThen adulthood<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy birthday dear&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nContemplating the birthday wish<br \/>\nA bike, video game, or a new book<br \/>\nMy last birthday wish<br \/>\nAs a child<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy birthday to you!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe singing is over<br \/>\nHere comes the moment<br \/>\nClose my eyes and make a silent wish<br \/>\nWish for a happy life<br \/>\nGuess I am actually<br \/>\nGrowing up..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Happy birthday to you&#8230;&#8221; Sung by friends and family Smiling awkwardly Sitting there and waiting Watching as the flame eats more and more of his wax meal &#8220;Happy birthday to you..&#8221; 11 going on to 12 One last year of being a kid Before the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271","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\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52286,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions\/52286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}