{"id":1126,"date":"2020-11-04T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/?page_id=1126"},"modified":"2020-11-05T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:02:34","slug":"i-want-the-kindness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/raymond-antrobus\/i-want-the-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want the toughness<\/p>\n<p>Of a lion when its hunting its pray not scared to jump out at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Of the shy kid that stands up to the bully knowing she cant beat him.<\/p>\n<p>Of a guard dog that sees someone breaking into its home that it protects do dearly.<\/p>\n<p>Of a tree struggling to live during the winter as its leaves fall and branches break in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Of the rain when its lashing down like whips on the poor people under it.<\/p>\n<p>Of the couch having a family being raised on it until it happens all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Of a steel bottle being bruised and bashed but still offers drinks for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>By Phoebe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want the toughness Of a lion when its hunting its pray not scared to jump out at any time. Of the shy kid that stands up to the bully knowing she cant beat him. Of a guard dog that sees someone breaking into its home that it protects do dearly. Of a tree struggling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/raymond-antrobus\/i-want-the-kindness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Family Couch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10589,"featured_media":0,"parent":1102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1126\/revisions\/1163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}