{"id":1055,"date":"2012-11-29T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T02:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2012-12-05T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:52:21","slug":"belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"BELONGING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BELONGING<\/p>\n<p>Laughing, joyful voices<br \/>\npermeate the sacred stillness.<\/p>\n<p>What a deep yearning<br \/>\nto be part of this sweet sound.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching this cheerful duo,<br \/>\nwishing to be part of this friendship too.<\/p>\n<p>Not aware of cues of disapproval,<br \/>\nhanging around because of wish to belong.<\/p>\n<p>Soon expressions of disapproval<br \/>\npervade the air.<\/p>\n<p>Still hanging around<br \/>\nbecause of wish to belong.<\/p>\n<p>Expressive disapprovals change more<br \/>\ninto direct humiliations.<\/p>\n<p>Now belonging becomes<br \/>\npainful part of continual humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2012 MUSE (Ute Sonja Elisabeth Medley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELONGING Laughing, joyful voices permeate the sacred stillness. What a deep yearning to be part of this sweet sound. Approaching this cheerful duo, wishing to be part of this friendship too. Not aware of cues of disapproval, hanging around because of wish to belong. Soon expressions of disapproval pervade the air. Still hanging around because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,114],"tags":[218,115,219,220],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-poems","tag-friendship","tag-poem","tag-stillness","tag-voices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsareshadows.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}