{"id":56741,"date":"2019-06-23T05:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56741"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:16:30","slug":"charades-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/charades-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young girl, age seven<br \/>\nmaybe eight<br \/>\nran jovially through rain<br \/>\nsplashing in every puddle as she moved<\/p>\n<p>Her mom, trailing behind<br \/>\nsmiles for her child, but her eyes betray her.<br \/>\nShe is listless.<\/p>\n<p>The world has a way of robbing us<br \/>\nof even the smallest moments.<br \/>\nStress builds, we find ourselves trapped<br \/>\nunderneath the mound, no longer<br \/>\nstrong enough to free ourselves,<br \/>\nwe succumb, not to the weight of the world,<br \/>\nbut the weight of our own worlds<br \/>\nwith all of their problems and \u201clittle\u201d urgencies.<\/p>\n<p>We are struggling to free ourselves internally,<br \/>\nbut our external forms must continue to move<br \/>\nand we go through the motions,<br \/>\nalways pretending nothing is wrong<br \/>\nbecause it is shameful to let someone see us<br \/>\nas weak.<\/p>\n<p>We bury ourselves within and<br \/>\nput on a social mask for our friends,<br \/>\nfamilies, people we love but can\u2019t let in.<\/p>\n<p>And we slowly sink deeper and deeper<br \/>\ndrowning in our own charade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young girl, age seven maybe eight ran jovially through rain splashing in every puddle as she moved Her mom, trailing behind smiles for her child, but her eyes betray her. She is listless. The world has a way of robbing us of even the&#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-56741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56741","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=56741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56742,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56741\/revisions\/56742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}