{"id":57505,"date":"2019-06-23T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57505"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:29:58","slug":"bored-children-hour-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/bored-children-hour-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored Children (Hour 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most potent emotion I can recall<br \/>\nfrom my childhood is a feeling of needing<br \/>\nsomething I could not explain. I have countless<br \/>\nmemories of pestering my mother in the living room<br \/>\nof our home, complaining that \u201cI\u2019m bored,\u201d and<br \/>\n\u201cI want to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mother usually encouraged me to be<br \/>\nconstructive at first, such as finishing my share<br \/>\nof the housework, which I often neglected.<br \/>\nShe knew this wouldn\u2019t work, it wasn\u2019t what I was after,<br \/>\nbut still, she felt motherly enough to remind me.<\/p>\n<p>After this option was shot down,<br \/>\nshe would canter through a list of activities: drawing,<br \/>\nplaying outside, reading; all of which sounded unappealing,<br \/>\nand still, my dissatisfaction would fester<br \/>\nlike an ache I could not mend, an unmet need<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t understand at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most potent emotion I can recall from my childhood is a feeling of needing something I could not explain. I have countless memories of pestering my mother in the living room of our home, complaining that \u201cI\u2019m bored,\u201d and \u201cI want to do something.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57505","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57511,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57505\/revisions\/57511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}