{"id":76677,"date":"2020-06-28T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76677"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:55:31","slug":"can-you-imagine-prompt-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/can-you-imagine-prompt-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Imagine (Prompt 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t create imaginary friends<br \/>\nMy sense of reality far too critical<br \/>\nI once asked the tooth fairy for her picture<br \/>\nTo prove that she was real<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in between I did believe<br \/>\nIn magic and intention<br \/>\nMore times than can be mentioned<br \/>\nThings occurred which challenged reason<\/p>\n<p>In my loneliness I thought<br \/>\nThat if I wanted something hard enough<br \/>\nIf I wished for it and pictured it<br \/>\nIt would surely come to be<\/p>\n<p>Then I found the bead<\/p>\n<p>Small plastic and purple tucked into the dirt<br \/>\nOverflowing with excitement I felt<br \/>\nI&#8217;d found the golden ticket or<br \/>\nBeen given magic beans<\/p>\n<p>A bead became a seed<br \/>\nOne I planted and I planned to grow<br \/>\nA best friend that would love me<br \/>\nAnd I believed without a single doubt<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d have a common name<br \/>\nEasy to spell, unlike my own<br \/>\nDark hair and pale skin<br \/>\nI wanted the opposites of me<\/p>\n<p>I would know her by her favorite color<br \/>\nShe&#8217;d love purple and butterflies<br \/>\nLong eyelashes and she&#8217;d always laugh<br \/>\nAnd she&#8217;d want to hold my hand<\/p>\n<p>What I planted in the sand<br \/>\nWas just a random piece of plastic<br \/>\nBut I still believe in her<br \/>\nAnd I still believe in magic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t create imaginary friends My sense of reality far too critical I once asked the tooth fairy for her picture To prove that she was real Somewhere in between I did believe In magic and intention More times than can be mentioned Things occurred&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76677","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76730,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76677\/revisions\/76730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}