{"id":76201,"date":"2020-06-28T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76201"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:51:03","slug":"the-little-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-little-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt 23 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 11)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chhoti never left the room with the toys<\/p>\n<p>As a child, I was jealous of her<\/p>\n<p>For if I had my way, I would be there all day too<\/p>\n<p>Yet I was bound by rules and school, and she was not<\/p>\n<p>When I told my parents, they were dismissive<\/p>\n<p>They apologized for not giving me real siblings<\/p>\n<p>But Chhoti was real<\/p>\n<p>It was our little secret<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later<\/p>\n<p>A girl is now a woman<\/p>\n<p>Toys are forgotten in favor of clothes and makeup<\/p>\n<p>The home\u00a0 is no longer the most fun place to be<\/p>\n<p>So the room with the toys lies gathering<\/p>\n<p>And with it lies Chhoti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 23 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 11)\u00a0 Chhoti never left the room with the toys As a child, I was jealous of her For if I had my way, I would be there all day too Yet I was bound by rules and school, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76201","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76208,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76201\/revisions\/76208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}