{"id":96667,"date":"2021-06-26T20:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96667"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:01:53","slug":"lab-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/lab-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lab Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After school I took the stairs up to the third floor,<\/p>\n<p>the chemistry lab, to finish the project.<\/p>\n<p>The hall was empty this late<\/p>\n<p>and I was the only student in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>I mixed\u00a0what I had to mix, wrote down results.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher came out of his small office<\/p>\n<p>and watched as I soaped and rinsed<\/p>\n<p>and placed the tubes on the drying rack.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up my books, held them across my chest<\/p>\n<p>as girls did and turned to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>Wiping his hands with a rag, he said,<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re very sheltered, aren&#8217;t you.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what he was getting at.<\/p>\n<p>I was a gabby girl but I had no words to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I had watchful parents, my mother once<\/p>\n<p>about to call the police because I didn&#8217;t call<\/p>\n<p>from my friend&#8217;s house after school.<\/p>\n<p>Was that what he meant?<\/p>\n<p>What exactly did he want me to affirm?<\/p>\n<p>I said goodbye sir and remembered<\/p>\n<p>how much easier it is to walk downstairs then up.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t only gravity that pulled me down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab Report &nbsp; After school I took the stairs up to the third floor, the chemistry lab, to finish the project. The hall was empty this late and I was the only student in the classroom. I mixed\u00a0what I had to mix, wrote down results&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96667","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\/1822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96817,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96667\/revisions\/96817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}