{"id":57343,"date":"2019-06-23T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57343"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:06:16","slug":"playground-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/playground-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Playground Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything was simpler<br \/>\nwhen worries consisted of who to<br \/>\nplay four square with on the playground<\/p>\n<p>Life was easier, when nights were<br \/>\nspent watching Yugioh in bed, while<br \/>\nmunching on fruit snacks<\/p>\n<p>The most complex part of fourth grade<br \/>\nwas creating a new dance with<br \/>\na fleeting \u201cbest friend\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, I still play games, only electronically<br \/>\nI still watch anime, less frequently<br \/>\nand I only dance with my headphones on<br \/>\nin an otherwise empty room<\/p>\n<p>But life is full.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s packed to the brim with responsibilities<br \/>\nand appointments, rarely a moment to spare<\/p>\n<p>but it is also full of<br \/>\npurpose<br \/>\nemotion<br \/>\npotential<br \/>\nand I reach higher every day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything was simpler when worries consisted of who to play four square with on the playground Life was easier, when nights were spent watching Yugioh in bed, while munching on fruit snacks The most complex part of fourth grade was creating a new dance with&#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-57343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343","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=57343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57345,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343\/revisions\/57345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}