{"id":1634,"date":"2013-03-11T04:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T05:26:09","slug":"the-pedestal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/the-pedestal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pedestal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/about\/author-biographies\/\"><em>Marissa Taylor\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to see your biceps deflated<br \/>\nI\u2019d like to see you three inches shorter<br \/>\nI\u2019d like to see you run ragged<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to see you less then you are<br \/>\nbecause then maybe, you could be on my<br \/>\nlevel<\/p>\n<p>And maybe,<br \/>\nif you were on my level ,<br \/>\nyou could be decent<\/p>\n<p>I am a balloon<br \/>\nWith children\u2019s hands inside of me<br \/>\nWearing me<br \/>\nlike rubber mittens<br \/>\nStretching me open<br \/>\nso I am a filtered transparent<br \/>\nI am so close to breaking<br \/>\nthat I can\u2019t fill anymore<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t rise<br \/>\nto your level<\/p>\n<p>So you must<br \/>\nfall<br \/>\nto mine<\/p>\n<p>I just want us to be equal<br \/>\nI want to stand next to you<br \/>\nand be confused at which face is mine<\/p>\n<p>Because maybe,<br \/>\nif you were less of you,<br \/>\nthen you could appreciate<br \/>\nall of me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marissa Taylor\u00a0 I\u2019d like to see your biceps deflated I\u2019d like to see you three inches shorter I\u2019d like to see you run ragged I\u2019d like to see you less then you are because then maybe, you could be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/the-pedestal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}