{"id":1260,"date":"2024-02-14T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:01:40","slug":"playmates-by-sarah-boyd-2024-love-stinks-writing-contest-3rd-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2024\/02\/14\/playmates-by-sarah-boyd-2024-love-stinks-writing-contest-3rd-place\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Playmates&#8221; by Sarah Boyd (2024 Love Stinks Writing Contest: 3rd Place)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your ego loves<br>my insecurities.<br>My insecurity<br>craves your attention.<br>Two broken<br>pieces finding each other\u2026<br>The world has never<br>met two faster friends.<br>Now they are<br>inseparable,<br>never leaving<br>each other&#8217;s side.<br>Perfect playmates<br>on the surface.<br>Enjoying their games.<br>Smiling and laughing,<br>but neither chooses<br>to play fair.<br>We never should<br>have introduced<br>them. The\u00a0play dates<br>have to end.<br>But who could<br>have guessed<br>they would have<br>gotten along<br>so well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your ego loves<br \/>\nmy insecurities.<br \/>\nMy insecurity<br \/>\ncraves your attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[332659,281492,297435,245381],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-332659","tag-3rdplace","tag-love-stinks-writing-contest","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}