{"id":97689,"date":"2021-06-26T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97689"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:56:47","slug":"adulthood-12-of-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/adulthood-12-of-24\/","title":{"rendered":"adulthood &#8211; 12 of 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say goodbye to another carnival\u2014<br \/>\nmy childhood wrapped up in its<br \/>\nbassinet, my body rocking to its<br \/>\ncommotion. Little girl on the Sizzler.<br \/>\n\u201cHush little baby,\u201d it says.<br \/>\nI age into debt,<br \/>\nI age into hardship,<br \/>\nI age into photographs<br \/>\nand I age out of laughs,<br \/>\nbut I am never too old for<br \/>\nthe fair.<\/p>\n<p>Hush little baby, don\u2019t say a word,<br \/>\nif all of mother\u2019s gifts one day break,<br \/>\nyou can still pay eight dollars for<br \/>\na funnel cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say goodbye to another carnival\u2014 my childhood wrapped up in its bassinet, my body rocking to its commotion. Little girl on the Sizzler. \u201cHush little baby,\u201d it says. I age into debt, I age into hardship, I age into photographs and I age out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97695,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689\/revisions\/97695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}