{"id":2809,"date":"2023-11-08T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2023-11-08T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:00:08","slug":"the-conjuring-chant-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"The Conjuring Chant, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conjuring Chant<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I was a little girl,<br \/>\ntrying to be real,<br \/>\nthe adults around me&#8211;<br \/>\nflattening the world&#8211;<br \/>\ncould not slay wonder.<br \/>\nThe sheer mystery<br \/>\nof even a handful<br \/>\nof fallen leaves,<br \/>\nor the spider web nearly<br \/>\nwalked into\u2014or even myself<br \/>\nmaking the soap dirty<br \/>\nwith my hands just<br \/>\nbefore dinner after a day<br \/>\nof exploring the woods alone.<br \/>\nBecause I knew enough<br \/>\nthe anticipation of tomorrow\u2019s dirt,<br \/>\nthe fields, the creek, the stains<br \/>\nthat will never wash away,<br \/>\nand the conjuring chant of<br \/>\nI will not be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conjuring Chant by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; When I was a little girl, trying to be real, the adults around me&#8211; flattening the world&#8211; could not slay wonder. The sheer mystery of even a handful of fallen leaves, or the spider web nearly walked into\u2014or even myself making the soap dirty with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}