{"id":90666,"date":"2021-06-26T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90666"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:43:47","slug":"90666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/90666\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No. 4 &#8211; The concert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Nandhini G. Natarajan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Piya\u2019s teacher could<\/p>\n<p>not take it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I was upon her,<\/p>\n<p>like Chinese torture,<\/p>\n<p>drip, drip, drip.<\/p>\n<p>So what if Piya couldn\u2019t speak<\/p>\n<p>couldn\u2019t sing,<\/p>\n<p>couldn\u2019t play?<\/p>\n<p>She could do <em>something.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She was given<\/p>\n<p>a triangle,<\/p>\n<p>for one tinkle<\/p>\n<p>at the end of the song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ecstatic,<\/p>\n<p>I brought the camera<\/p>\n<p>and a video<\/p>\n<p>to capture Piya\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n<p>I stood squarely<\/p>\n<p>in the aisle,<\/p>\n<p>not a movement would I miss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Piya came on stage<\/p>\n<p>with the triangle.<\/p>\n<p>Tears gushed into my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The tinkle was heard<\/p>\n<p>but not seen.<\/p>\n<p>By the time,<\/p>\n<p>my eyes were clear,<\/p>\n<p>the moment had passed<\/p>\n<p>with nary a picture to show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 4 &#8211; The concert By Nandhini G. Natarajan &nbsp; Piya\u2019s teacher could not take it anymore. I was upon her, like Chinese torture, drip, drip, drip. So what if Piya couldn\u2019t speak couldn\u2019t sing, couldn\u2019t play? She could do something. \u00a0 She was given&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90666","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\/2873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90697,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90666\/revisions\/90697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}