{"id":93423,"date":"2021-06-26T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93423"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:59:51","slug":"no-7-the-injections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/no-7-the-injections\/","title":{"rendered":"No.7 &#8211; The injections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No. 7 \u2013 The Injections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Nandhini G. Natarajan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The little girl contracted an infection<\/p>\n<p>and needed daily injections<\/p>\n<p>for a whole year.<\/p>\n<p>Her aunt,<\/p>\n<p>a doctor<\/p>\n<p>brought the injections home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every evening,<\/p>\n<p>the girl laid on her side scared,<\/p>\n<p>and she whimpered.<\/p>\n<p>But she stopped crying<\/p>\n<p>when everyone said,<\/p>\n<p>what a brave girl she was,<\/p>\n<p>and she felt proud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A game soon evolved<\/p>\n<p>around the girl\u2019s shots,<\/p>\n<p>which she hated.<\/p>\n<p>After she was injected,<\/p>\n<p>Aunt would pretend<\/p>\n<p>to inject her brother,<\/p>\n<p>his eyes looked so big<\/p>\n<p>when he was scared.<\/p>\n<p>But he was quickly<\/p>\n<p>reassured,<\/p>\n<p>and embraced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The little girl would stand<\/p>\n<p>rubbing her butt.<\/p>\n<p>She would cry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Look at me; it hurts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0I\u2019m so brave!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But no one heard.<\/p>\n<p>Her scream was inside.<\/p>\n<p>She was silent.<\/p>\n<p>She was invisible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 7 \u2013 The Injections By Nandhini G. Natarajan &nbsp; The little girl contracted an infection and needed daily injections for a whole year. Her aunt, a doctor brought the injections home. &nbsp; Every evening, the girl laid on her side scared, and she whimpered&#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-93423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93423","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=93423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93442,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93423\/revisions\/93442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}