{"id":98412,"date":"2021-06-26T22:33:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98412"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:33:33","slug":"little-violet-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/little-violet-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Violet Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her pigtails bounce<br \/>\nSide to side<br \/>\nSkipping brightly<br \/>\nIn a lollipop swirl of colors<br \/>\nAs her skirt<br \/>\nBounces to meet her hair<br \/>\nThe distance never quite reached.<\/p>\n<p>She grabs her big sisters sleeve<br \/>\nTugs a bit<br \/>\nJumps up<br \/>\nSpringing to be eye to eye.<\/p>\n<p>Bella grabs her hand and leads her to the trampoline.<br \/>\nThey jump<br \/>\nEach trying to stretch the extra inch.<\/p>\n<p>They laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Bella&#8217;s lace covered frock sticks to the lollipop color swirls.<br \/>\nThey jump closer<br \/>\nHigher<br \/>\nUntil they collapse<br \/>\nA smiling sister heap.<\/p>\n<p>So it is in the cartoon Bella draws.<\/p>\n<p>She has 5 brothers.<br \/>\nNot today.<br \/>\nNot this drawing.<br \/>\nToday it is her and her little sister Violet Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Her and the little sister she will never have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her pigtails bounce Side to side Skipping brightly In a lollipop swirl of colors As her skirt Bounces to meet her hair The distance never quite reached. She grabs her big sisters sleeve Tugs a bit Jumps up Springing to be eye to eye. Bella&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98412","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98549,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98412\/revisions\/98549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}