{"id":99923,"date":"2021-06-27T01:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99923"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:38:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:38:44","slug":"hour-8-prompt-8-the-older-sibling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-8-prompt-8-the-older-sibling\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8 Prompt 8 The Older Sibling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hour 8 Prompt 8<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Older Sibling<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the older sibling I felt responsible for my younger brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My mother didn\u2019t tell me I was responsible, but as we walked\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to school every day, just the two of us, I was responsible. Then<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">my brother got hurt and I was responsible and we didn\u2019t get to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">go on our regular family vacation because my mother had to work<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">extra because my brother needed care. We went to meet my\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">grandparents who I hadn\u2019t met before. My mother left us with\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">them and I felt more responsible for my brother. If you have a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">choice, don\u2019t be the older sibling. Be the younger one. Even if<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you have to listen to the older one boss you around. It\u2019s just easier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 8 Prompt 8 &nbsp; The Older Sibling &nbsp; As the older sibling I felt responsible for my younger brother. My mother didn\u2019t tell me I was responsible, but as we walked\u00a0 to school every day, just the two of us, I was responsible. Then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99923","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\/1339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99930,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99923\/revisions\/99930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}