{"id":1455,"date":"2024-06-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:14:17","slug":"epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I wished for you.<br><br>We practice our dances for the musical in your room.<br>The mermaids from Neverland draw me in closer.<br>An arm suddenly emerges from the water <br>Grabs my flesh and pulls--<br><br>I have an illness--perhaps the mumps.<br>I have been absent from two whole weeks of school,<br>And I scream into my pillow because <br>I am missing your birthday party.<br><br>I lie in bed, mad at being sick.<br>Tossing and turning, trying to erase the image<br>Of everyone making friendship bracelets,<br>Decorating sweet, pastel cupcakes. <br><br>5th graders run around on the playground.<br>Kites with post-it note wishes almost touch the sun.<br>Kids with sticky fingers desperately try to get their wishes to fall off,<br>So they come true.<br><br>Wishes for dresses, candy, friends drop like foliage.<br>Yet my wish sticks to the kite <br>As though the wind is crying, <br>You chose the wrong wish.<br><br>There were tears in bathroom stalls,<br>Daily exclusions,<br>Judgy stares,<br>And power moves. <br><br>I should have known from the beginning <br>That my desire to be in was blocking my judgment.<br>I should have known you were exploiting my insecurity,<br>That I had it all wrong when<br><br>I wished for you.<br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wished for you.We practice our dances for the musical in your room.The mermaids from Neverland draw me in closer.An arm suddenly emerges&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-arts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueandread.asbarcelona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}