{"id":57313,"date":"2019-06-23T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57313"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:24:32","slug":"hour-23-wild-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-23-wild-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 23, Wild Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a wild child,<br \/>\ntwigs in my hair<br \/>\nand the wind under my feet.<\/p>\n<p>I could not be contained<br \/>\nwithin four walls,<br \/>\naching to run and be free.<\/p>\n<p>Animals, birds, and bugs<br \/>\nwere my companions<br \/>\nand my friends.<\/p>\n<p>People could not be trusted,<br \/>\nbut trees never hurt me,<br \/>\nsheltered within their branches.<\/p>\n<p>I disappeared for entire days,<br \/>\ncurled like a deer in a hollow,<br \/>\nsilent and dappled in shade.<\/p>\n<p>It took some years to tame me,<br \/>\nan elemental contained<br \/>\nby words, the alchemical spell of books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a wild child, twigs in my hair and the wind under my feet. I could not be contained within four walls, aching to run and be free. Animals, birds, and bugs were my companions and my friends. People could not be trusted, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57484,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313\/revisions\/57484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}