{"id":498,"date":"2018-04-15T23:31:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=498"},"modified":"2018-04-15T23:31:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:31:43","slug":"shy-girl-ghazal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/15\/shy-girl-ghazal\/","title":{"rendered":"SHY GIRL GHAZAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by MAEVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My parent\u2019s friends are welcomed into my house.<br \/>\nWhen I didn\u2019t say hi, my dad said, \u201cSorry, she\u2019s a very shy girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I played the role and hid behind his legs<br \/>\nLater, I learned that no one wants to meet a shy girl.<\/p>\n<p>Once, I didn\u2019t raise my hand in class.<br \/>\nMy teacher asked, \u201cwhy don\u2019t you have anything to say, shy girl?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had something to say. It was the answer I had rehearsed in my head.<br \/>\nAfter school, I sobbed at home. I knew this is why no one likes a shy girl.<\/p>\n<p>My boyfriend always tells me he wants to know what I have to say.<br \/>\nIs he pretending not to mind? I hate being a burden. Hate being a shy girl.<\/p>\n<p>Mom told me to break out of my shell even though she knew she was the same.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve wanted to pretend to not be myself. But even today, I\u2019m still a shy girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by MAEVE<\/p>\n<p>My parent\u2019s friends are welcomed into my house.<br \/> When I didn\u2019t say hi, my dad said, \u201cSorry, she\u2019s a very shy girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I played the role and hid behind his legs<br \/> Later, I learned that no one wants to meet a shy girl.<\/p>\n<p>Once, I didn\u2019t raise my hand in class.<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}