{"id":52416,"date":"2019-06-22T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52416"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:43:30","slug":"dreams-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dreams-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look up in awe, as the creatures I idolize<br \/>\nstand twenty feet away, completely<br \/>\nunaware of my existence, unbothered<br \/>\nby the tears beginning to gather at<br \/>\nthe corners of my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>There is no explanation, no deep-seated<br \/>\nreason for my sudden overflow of emotions.<br \/>\nThe excitement, the pure childish joy<br \/>\nthat bounds from my chest is not<br \/>\nunexpected, but exceeds anything I was<br \/>\nprepared for. I glimpse the looks on my friends\u2019<\/p>\n<p>faces. They see me. They understand,<br \/>\nthey are as happy for me as I am for myself,<br \/>\nand as I hold out a long branch to the<br \/>\nlong-necked animal far too large to dream<br \/>\nof keeping as a pet, those friends<br \/>\ncheer me on. This is<br \/>\nmy dream. I\u2019ve waited 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>Just to pet a giraffe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look up in awe, as the creatures I idolize stand twenty feet away, completely unaware of my existence, unbothered by the tears beginning to gather at the corners of my eyes. There is no explanation, no deep-seated reason for my sudden overflow of emotions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52416","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55865,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52416\/revisions\/55865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}