{"id":53,"date":"2009-02-02T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-09-30T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T17:29:16","slug":"sonnet-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet III"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">When I was schooling in halls so hallow,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">my pale young body was softer than now,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Name-calling bullies taunted <\/span>Moo!<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> and <\/span>Cow!<\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">comments I took to be somewhat shallow<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">I&#8217;d lie awake by the flick&#8217;ring tallow,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">years of frustration furrowing my brow,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">wanting to break free\u2014yet not knowing how\u2014<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">from flesh that felt like spongy marshmallow<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">These days such mem&#8217;ries seem irrelevant,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">my current physique is sculpted from oak<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">But though I am strong as an elephant,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">a soft onion bagel still can evoke<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">pain that propels me down on hell&#8217;s descent\u2014<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">to my old body, the butt of a joke<\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was schooling in halls so hallow, my pale young body was softer than now, Name-calling bullies taunted Moo! and Cow! comments I took to be somewhat shallow I&#8217;d lie awake by the flick&#8217;ring tallow, years of frustration furrowing my brow, wanting to break free\u2014yet not knowing how\u2014 from flesh that felt like spongy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[114,19,112,53,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poemsaboutonionbagels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}