I see you smiling at them,
the boys, your jewels.
They always were your
precious stones, and I
your polished silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They beautiful as they were,
I only so when polished,
positioned and prepped
for the world to see,
to gaze upon and admire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m no longer fit for your display.
My tarnished spots now
sing an ancient song\u2014
in your world they offend.
In mine they are everything
I was meant to be.
Offensive to you,
they are freedom to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I see you smiling at them,the boys, your jewels.They always were yourprecious stones, and Iyour polished silver. They beautiful as they were,I only so when polished,positioned and preppedfor the world to see,to gaze upon and admire. I\u2019m no longer fit for your display.My tarnished spots nowsing an ancient song\u2014in your world they offend.In mine they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[173,428,427,425,429,426],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-feminism","tag-gender-differences","tag-gender-roles","tag-mother","tag-sexism","tag-social-constructs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}