{"id":93615,"date":"2021-06-26T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93615"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:16:34","slug":"insignificant-events-in-the-life-of-a-cactus-by-dusty-bowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/insignificant-events-in-the-life-of-a-cactus-by-dusty-bowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusty Bowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>armless<br \/>\nshe stuns at first glance<br \/>\nbut looks past rude stares<br \/>\nto allow gawkers the opportunity<br \/>\nto reveal their kinder, gentler selves<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t always happen<\/p>\n<p>befriending the boy<br \/>\nwhose Tourette\u2019s keeps him<br \/>\nalone in a world filled<br \/>\nwith \u2018others\u2019 who simply<br \/>\nhaven\u2019t been separated yet<\/p>\n<p>someday those others<br \/>\nwill each be all alone<br \/>\nand maybe remember<br \/>\nwhat it felt like<br \/>\nwhen the armless girl smiled<br \/>\nand gave them a second chance<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 8: Try and condense the plot of a book, any book, into a poem. It can be very direct and recognizable, or abstract and obscured.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>armless she stuns at first glance but looks past rude stares to allow gawkers the opportunity to reveal their kinder, gentler selves it doesn\u2019t always happen befriending the boy whose Tourette\u2019s keeps him alone in a world filled with \u2018others\u2019 who simply haven\u2019t been separated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93615","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93686,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93615\/revisions\/93686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}