{"id":768,"date":"2017-11-09T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:17:50","slug":"crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re a crab.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I figured it out&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re not drab<\/p>\n<p>but maybe a blue-backed,<\/p>\n<p>uncracked<\/p>\n<p>crab.<\/p>\n<p><!-- >\nYou've never known loss--\n\nbut even as I write this\n\nmemories toss\n\naround my mind\n\nof this past year.\n\nIt was not kind.\n\nYou didn't deserve that\n\nall at once. <--><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got claws.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got weapons<\/p>\n<p>at your disposal&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>but you think you know it all.<\/p>\n<p>And yet,<\/p>\n<p>in the same breath,<\/p>\n<p>you put yourself down.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how strong<\/p>\n<p>the ground is<\/p>\n<p>you can drill yourself deep.<\/p>\n<p>And I look at you and think:<\/p>\n<p><em>What a crab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe like those little white<\/p>\n<p>ones that scuttle across the sand<\/p>\n<p>and dig down<\/p>\n<p>by themselves and only come up<\/p>\n<p>because of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming waves<\/p>\n<p>that we both know you see<\/p>\n<p>coming and yet<\/p>\n<p>you either:<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t move<\/p>\n<p>dig deeper.<\/p>\n<p>You initially seemed closed off<\/p>\n<p>and your shell was hard<\/p>\n<p>to get through.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I did it.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a crab,<\/p>\n<p>you might be difficult<\/p>\n<p>to open up,<\/p>\n<p>but you&#8217;re a specialty<\/p>\n<p>if I&#8217;ve ever seen one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re a crab. Look, I figured it out&#8211; you&#8217;re not drab but maybe a blue-backed, uncracked crab. You&#8217;ve got claws. You&#8217;ve got weapons at your disposal&#8211; but you think you know it all. And yet, in the same breath, you put yourself down. No matter how strong the ground is you can drill yourself deep. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}