{"id":477,"date":"2024-05-29T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=477"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:23:11","slug":"first-scar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/first-scar\/","title":{"rendered":"First Scar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;First Scar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being little I thought I was dying. One afternoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I turned sharply, fell from my bike onto my left knee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked down, saw dark maroon blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ooze from the hole I had gouged.&nbsp;&nbsp; Cried for Mom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who came to inspect the damage.&nbsp; She allowed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how it wasn\u2019t much, took me inside to clean it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put a band aide on my cratered knee. After it healed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a tiny scar.&nbsp; I am sure I showed it off in school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, my knee is 71 years old, spider veins cluster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on the patella. I only imagine the scar on my knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Brillig micro lit mag<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;First Scar Being little I thought I was dying. One afternoon I turned sharply, fell from my bike onto my left knee.&nbsp; I looked down, saw dark maroon blood ooze from the hole I had gouged.&nbsp;&nbsp; Cried for Mom who came to inspect the damage.&nbsp; She allowed how it wasn\u2019t much, took me inside to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/first-scar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Scar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}