{"id":1617,"date":"2018-10-28T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","slug":"it-never-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/10\/28\/it-never-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"It never stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pexels-photo-754998-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pexels-photo-754998-cropped-1024x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1618\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The news article said<br \/>\nwear Nike, Adidas, Puma<br \/>\nor you&#8217;re not cool<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t afford any of those<\/p>\n<p>They laughed at<br \/>\nmy shoes<br \/>\nmy teeth<br \/>\nmy hair<br \/>\nmy face<br \/>\nI could never look right<\/p>\n<p>They cornered me<br \/>\nbehind the dugout<br \/>\nfive to one<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t do what they expected<\/p>\n<p>They cornered me<br \/>\nalong the fencing<br \/>\nfour to one<br \/>\nand laughed at<br \/>\nmy shoes<br \/>\nmy teeth<br \/>\nmy hair<br \/>\nmy face<\/p>\n<p>They sat next to me<br \/>\nsaid<br \/>\nI would never be enough<\/p>\n<p>They cornered me<br \/>\non the baseball diamond<br \/>\non the soccer pitch<br \/>\nin the classroom<br \/>\nin the halls<br \/>\nat work <\/p>\n<p>they still laugh at<br \/>\nme<br \/>\nmy clothes<br \/>\nmy writing<\/p>\n<p>it never stops<br \/>\nand the words<br \/>\nslowly kill me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,66,284,285],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-anxiety","tag-bullying","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}