{"id":2193,"date":"2019-12-13T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","slug":"me-and-little-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2019\/12\/13\/me-and-little-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and little me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191213_144427014-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191213_144427014-cropped-687x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"938\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2194\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me and Little Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jump up and grab the branch<br \/>\nswing your legs in the air<br \/>\nwrap them around the limb<br \/>\nhoist yourself up and around<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re secure<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nreading Encyclopedia Brown<br \/>\nsolving the case<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nwatching a gray squirrel<br \/>\ndart back and forth across the yard<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nwatching the wind blow leaves<br \/>\nred, yellow, orange, brown<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nlistening to the songs<br \/>\nof the cicada<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nin Gram&#8217;s tree<br \/>\nsupporting each other<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nwelcomed, valued,<br \/>\nunconditionally loved<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\na hug, a thoughtful glance<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re safe here, together<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nto tremble and cry,<br \/>\nand share the pain<\/p>\n<p>We sit, side by side<br \/>\nin silence<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s all we need right now<\/p>\n<p>little me doesn&#8217;t exist<br \/>\nbut she is real<br \/>\nand she lives inside of 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":[238,257,285,405],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mental-health","tag-new-york","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}