{"id":1331,"date":"2019-03-20T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2019-03-20T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:28:38","slug":"a-poem-i-wrote-in-my-mfa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"A poem I wrote in my MFA program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><u>Control It!<br \/>\n<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Her slipper won\u2019t fit. Her slipper won\u2019t fit. THAT STUPID GLASS SHOE CANNOT FIT HER MANGY FEET. She\u2019s locked in the attic\u2014where she rightly belongs. Her slipper won\u2019t fit. She won\u2019t get out of those deadbolts. I know it. She\u2019s with those disgusting mice. She\u2019s locked away. She\u2019s gone. I disposed of her raggedly hair and sooty body ever so humanely.<\/p>\n<p>I have to control the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Anastasia and Drizella need everything there is in this disruptive world. They need it more than that blonde with a broom. We will be poverty-ridden without the prince. Where will we get our food? How will the farm carry on? The shoe has to fit those manly girls of mine. Either will do. Why can\u2019t Anastasia have smaller feet? What is wrong with Drizella and her nails-on-a-chalkboard laugh? Why are they so bulky? Why is Cinderella so beautiful? I hate her delicate features. Those blue eyes! I hate her perfect waltz. She is not taking this from us. Never.<\/p>\n<p>I have to control the narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Control It! Her slipper won\u2019t fit. Her slipper won\u2019t fit. THAT STUPID GLASS SHOE CANNOT FIT HER MANGY FEET. She\u2019s locked in the attic\u2014where she rightly belongs. Her slipper won\u2019t fit. She won\u2019t get out of those deadbolts. I know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}