{"id":65182,"date":"2020-06-27T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65182"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:41:58","slug":"dance-like-people-are-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/dance-like-people-are-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Like People Are Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am alone<\/p>\n<p>acting like I\u2019m done acting.<\/p>\n<p>i feel like dancing,<\/p>\n<p>I am in the park surrounded by people.<\/p>\n<p>i bob my head<\/p>\n<p>i rock my body gently.<\/p>\n<p>i smile as my body dances softly.<\/p>\n<p>because I am here with them,<\/p>\n<p>and they are here with me.<\/p>\n<p>the contradiction of soft dancing<\/p>\n<p>and feeling seen<\/p>\n<p>watched<\/p>\n<p>judged<\/p>\n<p>loved<\/p>\n<p>is what reminds me I am human.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i dance like people are watching.<\/p>\n<p>because when I dance,<\/p>\n<p>people turn to look.<\/p>\n<p>when I smile, people notice.<\/p>\n<p>and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i get to bob my head,<\/p>\n<p>and tap my feet<\/p>\n<p>and sit on my blanket<\/p>\n<p>and smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am alone acting like I\u2019m done acting. i feel like dancing, I am in the park surrounded by people. i bob my head i rock my body gently. i smile as my body dances softly. because I am here with them, and they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65182","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\/1492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65737,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65182\/revisions\/65737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}