{"id":54593,"date":"2019-06-23T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54593"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:01:09","slug":"crazy-little-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/crazy-little-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Little They"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy Little They<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a little poem<br \/>\nabout a girl beyond the pale<br \/>\nthey all thought it was about them<br \/>\nit was like the song<br \/>\nbeing &#8216;so vain&#8217;<br \/>\nthey all thought this poem<br \/>\nwas about them<br \/>\nbut it was the crazy in it<br \/>\nthat they all identified with<br \/>\nand laid offence and claim to<br \/>\nI worried about that poem<br \/>\nand the fact that if I put<br \/>\na designation of a gender<br \/>\nand insane behaviors<br \/>\nto a character<br \/>\nthat so many people<br \/>\nwould reach out<br \/>\nand lash out in offense<br \/>\nclaiming that I had written<br \/>\na crazy little poem<br \/>\nabout crazy little them<br \/>\ntruthfully;<br \/>\none of them<br \/>\nwas likely to be correct<br \/>\nwhich one, I will never tell<br \/>\nbecause<br \/>\nif they were all so sure<br \/>\nthat they were all that crazy<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s safe to say<br \/>\nthat it really was<br \/>\na little poem<br \/>\nthat was about<br \/>\neach and every one of them<br \/>\nwho believed it described<br \/>\ncrazy little they<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll ever say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy Little They Virginia Carraway Stark I wrote a little poem about a girl beyond the pale they all thought it was about them it was like the song being &#8216;so vain&#8217; they all thought this poem was about them but it was the crazy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3019,3182,3183,3185,960,53,52,3184],"class_list":["post-54593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-crazy-little-they-poem","tag-crazy-poem","tag-probably-think-this-song-is-about-you","tag-starklight","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark","tag-youre-so-vain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54593","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54916,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54593\/revisions\/54916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}