{"id":1858,"date":"2021-03-24T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/?page_id=1858"},"modified":"2021-03-24T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:06:40","slug":"the-silent-boy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/my-beast\/the-silent-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When I was a child worried about school thinking that I won\u2019t be able to do\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">anything or would never be able to complete a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ny<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0work I was given. The only thing I would do was cry on the inside\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">when I didn\u2019t think\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I could do it. But I dreamed about myself being brave<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0strong enoug<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to face these problems head on. Brave enough to tell a teacher about these problems<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and figure out a way for me to get past these problems. But now I see I a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">m that boy from my\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">dreams<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">By Jack Smith<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child worried about school thinking that I won\u2019t be able to do\u00a0anything or would never be able to complete any\u00a0work I was given. The only thing I would do was cry on the inside\u00a0when I didn\u2019t think\u00a0I could do it. But I dreamed about myself being brave,\u00a0strong enough\u00a0to face these problems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/my-beast\/the-silent-boy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Silent Boy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10576,"featured_media":0,"parent":1842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858","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\/10576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858\/revisions\/1887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/poetryforall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}